addressee
Example Sentences
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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
“As the postal service we are always happy when the addressee gets the message,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2022
"If it's a prison term, then it's a prison term. It absolutely doesn't scare me," said the letter, shown to Reuters on condition the addressee remained anonymous.
From Reuters • Apr. 11, 2022
Me & hubby gone through them parcel not there but no details on card about addressee or sender.
From BBC • Dec. 14, 2021
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
