franked
- 1Past tense and past participle of frank.
Every parcel leaving the warehouse was franked by machine before the evening pickup.
The senator's newsletters were franked, so his office paid no postage on them.
Note
The participle sits easily before a noun or after be: a franked envelope carries a notice where the stamp would go, or has been let through free of postage altogether. A farmyard verb shares the spelling, so a franked animal was penned in a frank, or sty, and fattened. The adjective frank, meaning candid, has no verb behind it, so franked never means spoken plainly.
franked is a form of frank
frank, verb: To mark a letter or package to show that postage has been paid or is not needed, so it can be sent without a stamp. Full entry
- Spelling
- frank → franked: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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