listserv

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

See under listserve.

Noun

listserv (plural listservs)

  1. (Internet) A type of electronic mailing list, allowing for distribution of email to many subscribers.
    • 2009, January 29, “Jennifer Medina”, in Backers of Mayoral School Control Face Resistance‎:
      Rather than producing flashy television spots, it has placed simple ads on Web sites of news organizations and urbanbaby.com, and tried to spread its positions by posting on education and community listservs and blogs.
    • 2006, Mary E. Hawkesworth, Globalization and Feminist Activism (page 130)
      At subregional, regional, and global conferences, as well as through websites, listservs, cyberjournals, newsletters, and public reports and books, feminists from the South have articulated strategies to break down structural inequality […]
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