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address
noun [ C ]

UK  /əˈdres / US  /ˈæd.res /

address noun [C] (HOME DETAILS)

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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
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a place where someone lives:

• Police searched an address in North London

in connection with a drugs arrest.
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• Any further correspondence should be
sent to my new address. forwarding address
address bar
• Please send the articles to the address
IP address
given above.
web address
• Her new address is 12 Warwickshire address book
Mansions. address space
• He hasn't written to me recently - perhaps email address
he's lost my address. See all meanings
• Please print your name and address in
block capitals.  Idioms and phrases

• A man was detained at an address in

Birmingham.

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address noun [C] (COMPUTERS)

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a series of letters and symbols that tell you

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where to find something on the internet or
show where an email is sent to: WORD OF THE DAY

• What's your email address? pyjamas

• Do you have their Web address? UK  /pɪˈdʒɑː.məz/
  US  /pɪˈdʒɑː.məz/
COMPUTING • specialized

the place where a piece of information is

soft, loose clothing that is worn in
stored in a computer's memory
bed and consists of trousers and a
type of shirt
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address noun [C] (SPEECH)

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a formal speech:

• She gave an address to the Royal

Academy.

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verb [ T ] October 21, 2024

UK  /əˈdres / US  /əˈdres /
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address verb [T] (SPEAK TO)

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C2 formal

to speak or write to someone:

• He addressed a few introductory remarks to

the audience.
• You may address me as Ms Harris.
• He likes to be addressed as "Sir" or "Mr
Partridge".
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address verb [T] (DEAL WITH)
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to give attention to or deal with a matter or

problem: Tìm Hiểu Thêm

• The issue of funding has yet to be

addressed.

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address verb [T] (WRITE DETAILS)

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C2

to write a name or address on an envelope

or parcel:

• address something to someone Put the

cheque in an envelope and address it to John
Smith.
• be addressed to So why did you open a letter
that was addressed to me?
• The parcel was wrongly addressed.

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address verb [T] (SPORT)

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to stand in position before hitting a golf ball

or shooting at a target:

• Try to make sure that you are well balanced

when you address the ball.
• The archers have to straddle the line when
they address the target.

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(Definition of address from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's

Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

address | AMERICAN DICTIONARY

address
noun [ C ]

US  /ˈæd·res , əˈdres /

address noun [C] (PLACE)

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the specific place where a person, business,

or organization can be found and where mail
can be received:

• What is your street address now?

• I need your home and your business
address.
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An address is also a group of letters or

numbers and an @ symbol used to send
electronic mail to someone:

• My e-mail address is [email protected].

address noun [C] (SPEAK TO)

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a formal speech:

• The graduation address was very dull.

address
verb [ T ]

US  /əˈdres /

address verb [T] (SPEAK TO)

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to speak or write to someone, or to direct

information to someone:

• The First Lady addressed the meeting

briefly.
• He was generally addressed as “Captain.”

address verb [T] (DEAL WITH)

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to give attention to or to deal with a matter

or problem:

• We’ll address that question at the next

meeting.

address verb [T] (PLACE)

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to write or print the specific place where a

person, business, or organization can be
found on something to be sent there:

• I addressed envelopes all morning.

(Definition of address from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary

© Cambridge University Press)

address | BUSINESS ENGLISH

address
noun [ C ]

UK  /əˈdres / US  /ˈædres /

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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

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(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?

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INTERNET •
(also web address)

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?

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IT

→ memory address

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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

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address
verb [ T ]

UK  /əˈdres / US 
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[ 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

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to speak to a group of people, especially in a

meeting or formal event:

• He addressed a group of forty industrialists

and politicians.

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to speak to someone in a particular way or

using a particular name:

• address sb as sth She addressed him as Mr

Clifford.

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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.

(Definition of address from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary

© Cambridge University Press)

EXAMPLES of address

address
Very few of these studies actually address the
distinction between planning and control.
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The reports include an executive summary that

facilitates a quick and comprehensive understanding
of the key points addressed by the report.
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Philosophical arguments address one of the most

fundamental yet elusive questions facing behavioral
scientists, namely, what constitutes a disorder?
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It was first returned because it had been drafted by

counsel; government could only be addressed by
principals, not their agents.
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It will be important for future work to continue to

address these issues by attempting to differentiate
lexical from phonological representations.
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The question of how these gradient patterns are

grammatically represented and integrated with the
rest of the phonological system is not addressed.
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The chapter on data processing addresses these

issues with a detailed discussion of the issues
surrounding spot quantitation and data normalization.
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This allows students to address important issues

surrounding relations between theory and experience.
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This paper addresses the technical challenges of

implementing a producibility analysis tool.
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In particular, we must address the situation where we

recursively call a tabled subgoal before we have fully
tabled all its answers.
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The biological basis and pathophysiology of negative

symptoms are also addressed.
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The first point to address, then, is whether the findings

of variationist sociolinguistics are indeed compatible
with such a model.
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Every centre was encouraged to strengthen its social

science research, to address particular themes and
overall staff numbers.
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These themes were addressed in a limited number of

model systems.
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opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge
Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

COLLOCATIONS with address

address
These are words often used in combination with
address.

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address register
• This address space is used to address registers and
memory on the option.
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commencement address
• Heath (1980) cited an 1829 handbook and an 1846
commencement address that criticize the use of the
nominative in this environment.
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correct address
• It was clearly a question of the letter not going to the
correct address and not being forwarded that led to
the trouble.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any
opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge
Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

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