noun
- postage stamps issued for regular use over an extended period, as opposed to commemorative stamps
Usage: philatelic term
Examples
- The post office released new definitives featuring native birds.
- Collectors often focus on commemoratives rather than definitives.
- These definitives will be used for several years.
- The definitives come in various denominations.
- She specialized in collecting definitives from the 1960s.
- The new definitives replaced the previous series.