Listserv

[ list-surv ]

Trademark.

1. the brand name for one of the most common internet list servers.

noun

1. any similar software program.
2. an email discussion group; an online mailing list.

listserv

/ ˈlɪstˌsɜːv /

noun

1. a service on the internet that provides an electronic mailing to subscribers with similar interests

Word History and Origins

Origin of Listserv¹

First recorded in 1985–90 Listserv ( fordef 1 )

Example Sentences

Reges then wrote to an Allen School listserv saying he would continue putting his parody land acknowledgment in syllabi.

From Seattle Times

Then, on the evening of 27 February, while McCann was still in the tiny hospital in Corowa, Thorburn read a message posted a day earlier on Ozbug, a listserv of Australian infectious disease physicians.

From Science Magazine

On a Jewish social justice listserv, Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie, an Israeli-born New Yorker, called Shimunov’s video “an abomination.”

From Seattle Times

Array Crew began as a big list that became a Listserv, that ended up growing into a database.

From Los Angeles Times

The hoax email, sent early Wednesday morning, went to everyone on the school’s undergraduate listserv informing students of the “Unfortunate Passing of Radenka Maric.”

From Seattle Times