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单词 address
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addressnoun [ C ]

uk/əˈdres/us/ˈæd.res/

address noun [ C ] (HOME DETAILS)

A1 the number of the house, name of the road, and name of the town where a person lives or works, and where letters can be sent:

her business/home address
a change of address

More examples

  • Any further correspondence should be sent to my new address.
  • Please send the articles to the address given above.
  • Her new address is 12 Warwickshire Mansions.
  • He hasn't written to me recently - perhaps he's lost my address.
  • Please print your name and address in block capitals.

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Communications - the postal system

  • certified mail
  • consign
  • delivery
  • direct mail
  • express
  • letterbox
  • mail
  • mail slot
  • mailbag
  • mass mailing
  • p. and p.
  • pillar box
  • pin code
  • postmaster
  • shipping and handling
  • snail mail
  • stamp
  • surface mail
  • window
  • zip code

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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Home

address noun [ C ] (COMPUTERS)

A1 a series of letters and symbols that tell you where to find something on the internet or show where an email is sent to:

What's your email address?
Do you have their Web address?

specialized computing the place where a piece of information is stored in a computer's memory

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Computer concepts

  • aeroplane mode
  • airplane mode
  • atomicity
  • augmented reality
  • back end
  • clone
  • cloud
  • corruption
  • default to sth
  • desktop
  • electronic
  • gigabyte
  • GUI
  • reboot
  • template
  • tuple
  • virtual
  • virtually
  • web hosting
  • what you see is what you get idiom

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address noun [ C ] (SPEECH)

a formal speech:

She gave an address to the Royal Academy.

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Lecturing & addressing

  • ad lib
  • angle
  • extemporize
  • filibuster
  • floor
  • hold
  • hold forth
  • jawbone
  • lead 1
  • lead off
  • lecture
  • maiden speech
  • oration
  • oratory
  • sermonize
  • speak
  • speaking
  • speechify
  • talk
  • talk at sb

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addressverb [ T ]

uk/əˈdres/us/əˈdres/

address verb [ T ] (SPEAK TO)

C2 formal to speak or write to someone:

He addressed a few introductory remarks to the audience.
He likes to be addressed as "Sir" or "Mr Partridge".

More examples

  • She stood up to address a hushed courtroom.
  • It's incorrect to address people by their first names at these formal events.
  • He stepped out onto the balcony to address the multitude below.
  • Kindly address your remarks to the bench, Mr Smith.
  • All questions should be addressed to the chair.

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Lecturing & addressing

  • ad lib
  • angle
  • extemporize
  • filibuster
  • floor
  • hold
  • hold forth
  • jawbone
  • lead 1
  • lead off
  • lecture
  • maiden speech
  • oration
  • oratory
  • sermonize
  • speak
  • speaking
  • speechify
  • talk
  • talk at sb

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address verb [ T ] (DEAL WITH)

C1 to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem:

The issue of funding has yet to be addressed.

More examples

  • They are guilty of a cowardly failure to address the problem.
  • Her speech was full of excuses and evasions and never properly addressed the issue.
  • As employers we need to be seen to be addressing these issues sympathetically.
  • The government has to address the rise in violent crime.
  • Airports are trying to address security concerns without causing inconvenience to passengers.

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Dealing with things or people

  • attend to sb/sth
  • beard the lion (in his/her den) idiom
  • come up against sth
  • come/get to grips with sth idiom
  • confront
  • cut
  • firefight
  • firefighting
  • get sth in
  • inherit
  • jump-start
  • overcome
  • reckon
  • reckon with sb/sth
  • see about sth
  • see to sth/sb
  • set about sth
  • square
  • turn
  • weather

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address verb [ T ] (WRITE DETAILS)

C2 to write a name or address on an envelope or parcel:

The parcel was wrongly addressed.
So why did you open a letter that was addressed to me?

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Delivering and despatching

  • air drop
  • air-dash
  • airlift
  • consign
  • containerize
  • despatch
  • drop
  • enclose
  • fire sth off
  • forward
  • get sth in
  • reroute
  • route
  • send
  • send sth in
  • send sth off
  • ship
  • shipping
  • trot
  • trot sb out

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addressnoun [ C ]

uk/əˈdres/us/ˈædres/

a building number, name of the road, etc. where you live, where an organization has an office, or where mail is sent:

Please send your application to the address below.
What is your full address?
a business/home address
Taxpayers who have moved should make certain they file a change of address with the U.S. Postal Service.
See also
accommodation address
forwarding address

also email address the words and symbols that you type in order to send an email to a particular person. It usually consists of a person's name, an @ sign, the name of a company or school, and sometimes an abbreviation for a country:

I sent the email to the wrong address.
What's your email address?

also web address INTERNET the words and symbols that you type to look at a particular website:

How much web information could be captured: just the overall address or a list of each document viewed?

IT →  memory address

COMMUNICATIONS a formal speech:

in an address to sb/sth 'I can only see continued growth ahead of us,' the Chairman said in an address to analysts and money managers.
See also
accommodation address
forwarding address

addressverb [ T ]

uk/əˈdres/us

[ usually passive ] to write an address on an envelope or package so it can be sent to the person who has that address:

be addressed to sb/sth Make sure that your package is addressed to the correct department.
a stamped addressed envelope

to speak to a group of people, especially in a meeting or formal event:

He addressed a group of forty industrialists and politicians.

to speak to someone in a particular way or using a particular name:

address sb as sth She addressed him as Mr Clifford.

to deal with a particular problem or need:

It is time to address the budget deficit.
address a problem/issue How does the organization address the problems identified?
address a need He was impressed with the business plan because it addressed a real need.
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