ad·dress·ee

(ăd′rĕ-sē′, ə-drĕs′ē′)

The one to whom something is addressed.

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addressee

(ˌædrɛˈsiː)

1. a person or organization to whom a letter, parcel, etc, is addressed

2. a person who is addressed in conversation, a speech, a poem, etc

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ad•dress•ee

(ˌæd rɛˈsi, ə drɛˈsi)

n.

the person, company, or the like to whom a piece of mail is addressed.

[1670–80, Amer.]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

addressee - one to whom something is addressed

recipient, receiver - a person who receives something

Translations

المُرْسَل إلَيه

adresát

adressat

viîtakandi

adresát

addressee

[ˌædreˈsiː] N → destinatario/a m/f (Comm) → consignatario/a m/f
"postage to be paid by the addressee" → "a franquear en destino"

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

addressee

[ˌædrɛˈsiː] n → destinataire mf

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

addressee

n → Empfänger(in) m(f), → Adressat(in) m(f)

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addressee

[ˌædrɛˈsiː] n → destinatario/a

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address

(əˈdres) verb

1. to put a name and address on (an envelope etc). Address the parcel clearly.

2. to speak or write to. I shall address my remarks to you only.

((American) ˈӕdres) noun

1. the name of the house, street, town etc where a person lives. His address is 30 Main St, Edinburgh.

2. a speech. He made a long and boring address.

ˌaddresˈsee (ӕd-) noun

the person to whom a letter etc is addressed.

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References in classic literature

I sealed the letter, and dispatched it by the hand of a corridor lacquey, with orders to hand it to the addressee in person.

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It took 10 days for delivering a letter from Karachi to a Karachi addressee through Pakistan Post's UMS.

Pak Post UMS

That package will remain at the waiting shed until its addressee picks it up or asks somebody to have it brought to him or her.

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Roman Jakobson's model of speech communication introduced 6 elements of language communication, namely addresser, addressee, context, message, contact and code.

From A La-tzu Woman to Rain From the Sun: A Discourse on Chinese Malaysian Literature in the Transnational Context and the Construction of its Canon

The scope of the model presented here relates to communicative situations in which contextual underdetermination is present and the addressee has specific information about the speaker's interests, from which he/she obtains an order of preference between contextually plausible meanings.

EXPLICIT COMMUNICATION: AN INTEREST AND BELIEF-BASED MODEL

Besides, any email address made available by the addressee to the I- T authority or any person authorised by such I- T authority, the CBDT notification issued earlier this week states.

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52 First, an injunction such as that at issue in the main proceedings leaves its addressee to determine the specific measures to be taken in order to achieve the result sought, with the result that he can choose to put in place measures which are best adapted to the resources and abilities available to him and which are compatible with the other obligations and challenges which he will encounter in the exercise of his activity.

The act of advising is characterized by the benefit that it intends to involve for the addressee. It may be argued that all the other features of advising depend on the benefit component.

Un enfoque construccional de los consejos: operaciones construales y convenciones sociales

they concern the addressee, whereas, most rhetorical tag questions in spoken conversation are speaker-centred, i.e.

How different are fiction dialogues from spoken conversation?