caging
n.— «Clients saw a 14 percent increase in subscribers in 1988 from use of KLM’s caging/cashiering service, compared to a 3 percent rise in those countries where subscribers had to send a U.S. money order.» —“Playing It Smart: Going Global Means Finding Readers, Managing Editorial, Delivering The Goods, And Getting Paid In Currency You Can Use” by Susan Hovey Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management Nov. 1, 1990. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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