Meaning of Spam | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Unsolicited bulk electronic messages.
   Internet, countable, rare, uncountable
2. Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes.
   Internet, uncountable
3. Excessive, often unwanted and repeated online messages.
   Internet, countable, uncountable
4. Ellipsis of spam account.
   Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
5. A large quantity or multitude of anything done repetitively or considered unusually or indiscriminately repetitive.
   broadly, countable, often, uncountable
6. A type of tinned meat made mainly from ham.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I get⟳ far too much spam.”

“I received 58 spams yesterday.”

“In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct⟳ marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last⟳ year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post⟳, only 3% bought anything as a result⟳. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.”

“An Act to provide⟳ for the control⟳ of spam, which is unsolicited commercial communications sent in bulk by electronic mail or by text or multi-media messaging to mobile telephone numbers, and to provide⟳ for matters connected therewith.”

“During World War II, of course, I ate my share⟳ of SPAM along with millions of other soldiers.”

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