(~es, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Your ~ is the number of the house, flat, or apartment and the name of the street and the town where you live or work.
The ~ is 2025 M Street, Northwest, Washington, DC, 20036...
We require details of your name and ~.
N-COUNT: usu poss N
2.
If a letter, envelope, or parcel is ~ed to you, your name and ~ have been written on it.
Applications should be ~ed to: The business affairs editor.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed to n
3.
The ~ of a website is its location on the Internet, for example http://www.cobuild.collins.co.uk. (COMPUTING)
N-COUNT
4.
If you ~ a group of people, you give a speech to them.
He is due to ~ a conference on human rights next week.
VERB: V n
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Address is also a noun.
The President gave an ~ to the American people.
N-COUNT
5.
If you ~ someone or ~ a remark to them, you say something to them. (FORMAL)
The two foreign ministers did not ~ each other directly when they last met...
He ~ed his remarks to Eleanor, ignoring Maria.
VERB: V n, V n to n
6.
If you ~ a problem or task or if you ~ yourself to it, you try to understand it or deal with it.
Mr King sought to ~ those fears when he spoke at the meeting...
Throughout the book we have ~ed ourselves to the problem of ethics.
VERB: V n, V pron-refl to n