Address Addressed əˈdres I Letter Past Verb Bre

• the letter was correctly addressed, but delivered to the wrong house.
• address your application to the personnel manager.
• to address a meeting
• the president has been asked to address the assembly.

address

1. to write on an envelope, etc. the name and address of the person, company, etc. that you are sending it to by mail
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• The letter was correctly addressed, but delivered to the wrong house.
• Address your application to the Personnel Manager.
2. to make a formal speech to a group of people
• to address a meeting
• The President has been asked to address the assembly.
3. to say something directly to somebody
• I was surprised when he addressed me in English.
• Any questions should be addressed to your teacher.
• The book is addressed to the general reader.
4. to use a particular name or title for somebody when you speak or write to them
• There are different ways in which to address a member of the royal family.
• The judge should be addressed as ‘Your Honour’.
• In Britain, a surgeon is addressed as ‘Mr’ not ‘Dr’.
5. to think about a problem or a situation and decide how you are going to deal with it
• Your essay does not address the real issues.
• We must address ourselves to the problem of traffic pollution.

Extra Examples

• He addressed his comments to the chairman.
• He never addressed her directly.
• In the long run it is far cheaper to address the needs of poor people than to ignore them.
• Please send a stamped addressed envelope and we will send you a copy of our brochure.
• She did not address him by name.
• The authors of the book address themselves to the question of unemployment.
• The labour movement has always addressed issues of the quality of life.
• The minister did not reply to my letter although I addressed it to him personally.
• These concerns were not adequately addressed in the report.
• the problems we are seeking to address
• All remarks have to be addressed to the chair.
• How should I address her?
• Please address my client by his full name, Mr Babic.
• The message was specifically addressed to the younger generation.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they address
• he / she / it addresses
• past simple addressed
• past participle addressed
• -ing form addressing

Word Origin

• Middle English (as a verb in the senses ‘set upright’ and ‘guide, direct’, hence ‘write directions for delivery on’ and ‘direct spoken words to’): from Old French, based on Latin ad- ‘towards’ + directus past participle of dirigere, from di- ‘distinctly’ or de- ‘down’ + regere ‘put straight’. The noun is of mid 16th-cent. origin in the sense ‘act of approaching or speaking to someone’.