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Reply all

Meaning in office & administration, with examples

phraseCore term

In office & administration, reply all means: To answer an email by sending your reply to the sender and to everyone else who received the original message.

In Turkish: tümünü yanıtla, herkese cevap vermek

How it is used

Also the name of the button in email programs. Use reply all only when everyone on the list needs your answer; accidental replies to large distribution lists are a well-known office problem. As a noun: "Please don't use reply all for this."

Example sentences

  1. Please don't reply all; just send your answers to me.

  2. She hit reply all by mistake, and the whole company saw her message.

Common collocations

  • reply all
  • hit reply all
  • reply-all email
  • don't reply all
  • ccShort for carbon copy: to send a copy of an email to someone for information, or the field where you put their address.
  • bccShort for blind carbon copy: an email field for recipients whose addresses the other recipients cannot see.
  • forwardTo send an email or message you have received on to another person, or to send calls or post on to a different number or address.
  • subject lineThe short line at the top of an email that tells the reader what the message is about; it appears in the inbox before the email is opened.

This word in other fields

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