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  1. transitive verb To speak to: addressed me in low tones.
  2. transitive verb To make a formal speech to.
  3. transitive verb To direct (a spoken or written message) to the attention of: address a protest to the faculty senate.
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  • But the address has been the target of political commentators, comics and bloggers who called it amateurish and out of step with the American public.
  • Your return address and our address should be attached with either a clear shipping envelope or taped on with clear shipping tape. —  WORLDMag.com
  • A CVS spokesman said the address was assigned by the city and that the conflict will be resolved.
  • This address is the official address to which official notes, letters and reminders will be sent by the HMRC and other offices. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Had severe asthma, my address was the hospital emergency room a few years back but nobody would ever know now.
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message ·  data ·  list ·  speech ·  number ·  service ·  name ·  request ·  document ·  statement ·  location ·  command

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address:   addresses ·  addressing ·  addressed
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English adressen, to direct, from Old French adresser, from Vulgar Latin *addīrēctiāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Vulgar Latin *dīrēctiāre, to straighten (from Latin dīrēctus, past participle of dīrigere, to direct; see direct).

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  1. from Middle English adressen, from Old French adresser, adressier, adresier, earlier adrescer, adrecer, adrecier, etc., French adresser = Provencal adreysar = Spanish aderezar = Portuguese adereçar = Italian addirizzare, from Middle Latin *addrictiare (addretiare, addressare, etc.) for *addirectiare, from ad, to, + *drictiare, *directiare, make straight, later Old French drescer, dresser, later English dress: see a-, ad-, and dress, v.
  2. = French adresse, n.; from the verb.
 

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