ADDRESSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does addressed mean? 

• ADDRESSED (adjective)
  The adjective ADDRESSED has 1 sense:

1. (of mail) marked with a destination

  Familiarity information: ADDRESSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADDRESSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of mail) marked with a destination

Context example:

I throw away all mail addressed to 'resident'

Similar:

self-addressed (addressed to yourself)

Antonym:

unaddressed (not addressed)

 Context examples 

The letter (Mr. Micawber never missed any possible opportunity of writing a letter) was addressed to me, “By the kindness of T. Traddles, Esquire, of the Inner Temple.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Many of these additional factors were not addressed in earlier studies, underscoring the statistical power of this larger project.

(Breast cancer protection from pregnancy starts decades later, National Institutes of Health)

Tackling the illegal occupation problem is among the most urgent demands to be addressed in order to bring all units under the federal government.

(Brazilian savanna unprotected, study finds, Agência Brasil)

What's more, earlier studies have not addressed the source or quality of proteins and fats consumed in low-carb diets.

(Moderate Carbohydrate Intake May be Best for Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The lack of publications from Interphone, and the lack of budgetary consistency still haven't been addressed.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

"The challenges addressed by the work of NSF's Water and Environmental Technology Center impact important industries," said Prakash Balan in NSF's Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships.

(Using a smartphone to detect norovirus, National Science Foundation)

I have, according to our arrangement, addressed it to you, my dear Mr. McArdle, and I leave it to your discretion to delete, alter, or do what you like with it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A statement used to describe something found and to be addressed on an image or series of images.

(Image Annotation Statement, NCI Thesaurus)

The king, as far as I could conjecture, asked me several questions, and I addressed myself to him in all the languages I had.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He addressed me precisely in his ordinary manner, or what had, of late, been his ordinary manner—one scrupulously polite.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)