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Collocations for address - noun

1. where you live/work

ADJECTIVE

home, private
business
contact
Please leave a contact address.
forwarding, return
There was no return address on the back of the envelope.
mailing, postal (esp. BrE), snail-mail
billing
full
Please write your full postal address.
false, wrong
He gave a false address to the police.
correct, right
useful
secret

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VERB + address

give, leave, write

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address + NOUN

book

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PREPOSITION

at a/the address
I'm afraid there's nobody called Williams at this address.

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PHRASES

a change of address
Please inform us of any change of address.
name and address
no fixed address
a man of no fixed address

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2. in computing

ADJECTIVE

email
What's your email address?
Internet, Web, website

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3. speech

ADJECTIVE

short
commencement (AmE), farewell (esp. AmE), inaugural, keynote, opening
welcoming
public
a public address system
radio, televised, television
election
presidential

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VERB + address

deliver, give
The Secretary General delivered the keynote address at the conference.

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PREPOSITION

in a/the address
He gave details of the policy in an address to party members.
address by
an address by the Dean of the University
address to
a radio address to the nation

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Collocations for address - verb

1. write name and address

ADVERB

correctly, properly (BrE)
personally
The president did not reply to my letter although I addressed it to him personally.

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PREPOSITION

to

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2. say sth to sb

ADVERB

by name, directly
She did not address him by name.
He never addressed her directly.

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PREPOSITION

to
He addressed his comments to the chairman.

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3. deal with problem

ADVERB

directly, explicitly, specifically
fully
adequately
These concerns were not adequately addressed in the report.
successfully

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VERB + address

seek to
the problems we are seeking to address
fail to

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PHRASES

address yourself to sth
The authors of the book address themselves to the question of unemployment.

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Address is used with these nouns as the subject:
article, chapter, conference, essay, report

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Address is used with these nouns as the object:
argument, aspect, audience, bias, cause, chair, challenge, class, complaint, complexity, congregation, congress, convention, correspondence, crisis, criticism, crowd, deficit, disagreement, disparity, divide, envelope, failing, gap, gathering, grievance, imbalance, impact, implication, inequality, issue, letter, limitation, matter, meeting, misconception, need, objection, paradox, parliament, point, problem, question, rally, remark, risk, role, session, shortage, shortcoming, situation, subject, theme, threat, topic, vulnerability, weakness

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