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In some senses, bumf is marked as derogatory, obsolete, British. Watch for register when choosing this word.
bumf
/bʌmf/
noun 2
Collocations
4ADJ.
tendentious
VERB + BUMF
fend, reading
BUMF + NOUN
structures
PREP.
about, off
Definitions
noun
1
Useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material, etc.
And as for the limited warnings on documents and signs – we are so used to reading this bumf we fail to realise when they mean business.
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
2
Toilet paper.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — reading materials (documents, written information) that you
- bumph
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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And as for the limited warnings on documents and signs – we are so used to reading this bumf we fail to realise when they mean business.
Wiktionary02
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, onl
Wiktionary03
I say all this as someone who wishes the right had won one or two more of its battles. It would be just grand to visit a museum without having to fend off tendentious bumf about “power structures”.
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