ADDRESS


Meaning of ADDRESS in English

I.

noun

1 where you live/work

ADJECTIVE

▪ home , private

▪ business

▪ contact

Please leave a contact ~.

▪ forwarding , return

There was no return ~ on the back of the envelope.

▪ mailing , postal ( esp. BrE ), snail-mail

▪ billing

▪ full

Please write your full postal ~.

▪ false , wrong

He gave a false ~ to the police.

▪ correct , right

▪ useful

▪ secret

VERB + ADDRESS

▪ give , leave , write

ADDRESS + NOUN

▪ book

PREPOSITION

▪ at a/the ~

I'm afraid there's nobody called Williams at this ~.

PHRASES

▪ a change of ~

Please inform us of any change of ~.

▪ name and ~

▪ no fixed ~

a man of no fixed ~

2 in computing

ADJECTIVE

▪ email

What's your email ~?

▪ Internet , Web , website

3 speech

ADJECTIVE

▪ short

▪ commencement ( AmE ), farewell ( esp. AmE ), inaugural , keynote , opening

▪ welcoming

▪ public

a public ~ system

▪ radio , televised , television

▪ election

▪ presidential

VERB + ADDRESS

▪ deliver , give

The Secretary General delivered the keynote ~ at the conference.

PREPOSITION

▪ in a/the ~

He gave details of the policy in an ~ to party members.

▪ ~ by

an ~ by the Dean of the University

▪ ~ to

a radio ~ to the nation

II.

verb

1 write name and address

ADVERB

▪ correctly , properly ( BrE )

▪ personally

The president did not reply to my letter although I ~ed it to him personally.

PREPOSITION

▪ to

2 say sth to sb

ADVERB

▪ by name , directly

She did not ~ him by name.

He never ~ed her directly.

PREPOSITION

▪ to

He ~ed his comments to the chairman.

3 deal with problem

ADVERB

▪ directly , explicitly , specifically

▪ fully

▪ adequately

These concerns were not adequately ~ed in the report.

▪ successfully

VERB + ADDRESS

▪ seek to

the problems we are seeking to ~

▪ fail to

PHRASES

▪ ~ yourself to sth

The authors of the book ~ themselves to the question of unemployment.

Address is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ article , ↑ chapter , ↑ conference , ↑ essay , ↑ report

Address is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ argument , ↑ aspect , ↑ audience , ↑ bias , ↑ cause , ↑ chair , ↑ challenge , ↑ class , ↑ complaint , ↑ complexity , ↑ congregation , ↑ congress , ↑ convention , ↑ correspondence , ↑ crisis , ↑ criticism , ↑ crowd , ↑ deficit , ↑ disagreement , ↑ disparity , ↑ divide , ↑ envelope , ↑ failing , ↑ gap , ↑ gathering , ↑ grievance , ↑ imbalance , ↑ impact , ↑ implication , ↑ inequality , ↑ issue , ↑ letter , ↑ limitation , ↑ matter , ↑ meeting , ↑ misconception , ↑ need , ↑ objection , ↑ paradox , ↑ parliament , ↑ point , ↑ problem , ↑ question , ↑ rally , ↑ remark , ↑ risk , ↑ role , ↑ session , ↑ shortage , ↑ shortcoming , ↑ situation , ↑ subject , ↑ theme , ↑ threat , ↑ topic , ↑ vulnerability , ↑ weakness

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .