blast
n.— «How do you regulate a medium that is so fluid and so time critical? We cannot have the NASD take four days to approve a blast e-mail to all shareholders if the market expectation is “Yesterday I wanted it. Today is too late!”» —“Direction of Fund Advertising Debated” Mutual Fund Market News May 29, 2000. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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