addressee

West Mercia Police sent speeding tickets to a Grade II listed Herefordshire castle bought by Hammond in 2012 and a £1m farm estate near Hereford, but the letters were returned marked as "addressee gone away".

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

In such a case, the apparent addressee is not the real addressee: the teacher is trying to pass on information indirectly to one or more other students.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2023

“Needless to say the addressee was quite startled when they opened the box,” Port Chester police wrote on Facebook.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2022

“Here we go,” he said before slicing into an envelope with a return address on Queens Boulevard in New York, marked “Personal and confidential — to be opened by addressee only.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022

The Korean language has no fewer than six different levels of conversational address, depending on the relationship between the addressee and the addresser: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

Steps include blocking specific stations and IP addressees that consistently transmit false data.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 2, 2022

Lara Jean’s secret stash of unsent love letters to Josh and four other crushes winds up being mysteriously stamped and sent to the addressees.

From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2018

They come from a tradition of “vinegar valentines,” which, as I wrote on the Vault in 2013, delivered a payload of burn to their unfortunate addressees.

From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2018

In some cases, the emails were part of long chains, on which Mrs. Clinton was copied at the beginning, but later left off the list of addressees.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2016

One end of the table resembled a bee swarm: a babel of voices sounded as those nearest the pile of letters shouted the names of the addressees and tossed the missives back over their heads.

From The Long Trick by Bartimeus