noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a correspondence course (= in which you work at home, sending work to a teacher by post )
a correspondence/letters column (= that prints some of the letters a newspaper receives )
▪
Thousands of letters poured in to the correspondence column.
correspondence course
▪
I’m taking a correspondence course in business studies.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
final
▪
The judge's decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. 5.
▪
The decision of the judges, including that of the Editor, is final and no correspondence can entered into.
other
▪
These letters were always put on top of other correspondence in the headmistress's study.
▪
Only enclose the official entry coupon; no other correspondence should be enclosed in the envelope.
▪
The response to that questionnaire, together with other correspondence and submissions, forms the basis of what follows.
personal
▪
We regret that no personal correspondence can be entered into without a stamped-addressed envelope.
▪
Presidential families have gone to great lengths before to preserve the privacy of their personal correspondence .
▪
Unfortunately, Practically Speaking can not enter into personal correspondence on any topic - all correspondence must be conducted via Practically Speaking.
▪
No little red book, no reference to anybody named Blackman, no clippings, no cryptic notes, no personal correspondence .
▪
Packages can be sealed and can contain personal correspondence if it relates to the contents of the package.
▪
During the afternoon he takes care of personal correspondence and his reading.
▪
Printed Paper items must not contain personal correspondence or tapes.
▪
After Geneva, Reagan had established an informal personal correspondence with the Soviet leader.
private
▪
They said it also violates privacy rights by outlawing some expression within private e-mail correspondence between individuals.
■ NOUN
business
▪
Comprehensive index gives access to information on any aspect of business correspondence .
▪
Now there's another element of business correspondence that could do with some attention and purpose behind it.
▪
It is the main form of internal business correspondence and the means used to communicate the majority of written messages.
column
▪
It even raised adverse comments within the correspondence columns of Gay News itself.
course
▪
My eldest brother, Joe, used to take correspondence courses , so one lived in an environment of self-improvement.
▪
They both signed up for a five-dollar correspondence course in how to make ice cream.
▪
He returned to Carriacou and qualified as a solicitor through a London University correspondence course .
▪
He is also charged with taking a correspondence course at the University of California at Berkeley.
▪
Continuing a correspondence course is easy; finding another part-time degree may be less so.
▪
For families outside the local area, a correspondence course available in 23 languages currently serves 2,500 families from around the world.
▪
But over the years she'd studied hard - correspondence courses , night classes, anything she could lay her hands on.
▪
The official Singer correspondence course has now been operating for about nine months and has proved to be very popular.
■ VERB
deal
▪
He had no visitors, although once or twice a week his secretary might come to deal with his correspondence .
▪
This is something that must be discussed with the client rather than be dealt with in correspondence .
▪
Most business people receive so much correspondence that it is difficult for them to deal with all their correspondence immediately on receipt.
enter
▪
Unfortunately, Practically Speaking can not enter into personal correspondence on any topic - all correspondence must be conducted via Practically Speaking.
▪
Lesley regrets that she can not enter into any direct correspondence with readers.
▪
Robin Dewhurst is unable to enter into any correspondence regarding holiday enquiries.
keep
▪
We knew Malcolm had been really impressed with Hell in New York because they kept up a correspondence .
▪
With her was Nora Alstulund, her secretary, for she needed to keep current with correspondence and articles as she went.
▪
Nkrumah managed to keep up a correspondence by writing on lavatory paper which he wheedled out of his cellmates.
▪
Wherever possible the Institute attempts to keep the amount of correspondence to a minimum.
read
▪
How pilot medicals will change I have read with interest the correspondence concerning medical fees.
▪
Most days I lunched alone at my desk on a bowl of soup while reading correspondence and scribbling replies.
▪
You know that she read archeology by correspondence when she was at finishing school.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
And so began a long correspondence and a friendship with his distant cousin in Paris.
▪
I start my day by reading correspondence and scribbling replies.
▪
The biography is based on Marx's correspondence with Engels over 40 years.
▪
Your fax should include copies of any correspondence you have received from our office.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
Finally, the findings are not necessarily consistent with each other, although substantial areas of correspondence exist.
▪
He picked up the correspondence and miscellaneous papers in the in-tray and quickly scanned the contents.
▪
In theory, she studied domestic science - dressmaking and cooking - and took a pitman's correspondence and typing course.
▪
It is only a pity your correspondence can't be read by the Palace.
▪
Our concern in this section is merely to consider what use could be made today of correspondence for sociological purposes.
▪
Tin-plate models continue to provide a mass of correspondence .
▪
Unfortunately, Practically Speaking can not enter into personal correspondence on any topic - all correspondence must be conducted via Practically Speaking.
▪
Why do they express contempt for any correspondence theories of epistemology that involve attentive engagement with the real?