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letterhead

UK/ˈlɛtə(ɹ)ˌhɛd/US/ˈlɛtə(ɹ)ˌhɛd/
nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,187 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: letterheads

A letterhead is the printed name and address at the top of official paper. Company letterhead, write on letterhead, headed paper.

It signals that a letter is official, which is exactly why forgers copy one. In Britain a company must show its registered number and office address on it by law, which is why the small print at the foot is there.

The authorities of the Canton of Aargau, Switzerland · Public domain

Definitions of letterhead

  1. 1nounletterheadThe printed name and address at the top of official paper.B2+

    “The letter was printed on the company's letterhead, with its logo at the top.”

letterhead is a printed heading.

Where it comes from

Letter plus head, from the nineteenth-century printing trade.

From letter + head.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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letterhead in the wild

  • A letterhead is the heading at the top of a sheet of letter paper (stationery).

    Letterhead

  • Castelli with documents on Niger government letterhead describing secret plans for the sale of uranium to Iraq.

    Rocco Martino

  • In 1913, company letterhead indicated there were 19 offices with the additions of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Atlanta, El Paso, Spokane, Toronto, Ontario and Winnipeg, Manitoba.

    Thiel Detective Service Company

  • Along with the disc itself, a purchaser also received a hand-written thank-you note from Gryner on her personal letterhead.

    The Great Lakes (album)

  • RDI's aggressive marketing strategy received national attention after it was revealed that the company targeted the elderly with misleading practices, including solicitations and using misleading letterhead and language.

    Response Dynamics

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.