C/O | Meaning In The Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of c/o in English c/ouk /ˌsiːˈəʊ/ us /ˌsiːˈoʊ/ Add to word list Add to word list abbreviation for care of: used in addresses when the person you are writing to is staying at someone else's home: Sylvia Mendez, c/o Ann Smith, 12 Glastonbury Lane, Bickerton Communications - the postal system

• addy
• BFPO
• care of idiom
• catch the post
• collection box
• consignee
• delivery
• dispatch
• first class
• Freepost
• Jiffy bag
• parcel
• postage
• poste restante
• postie
• reply-paid
• self-addressed
• sorting office
• window
• zip code

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c/o | American Dictionary

c/o Add to word list Add to word list abbreviation for care of: You can write me c/o Roberta Moody, at 12 Townsend Place, Newark, New Jersey.

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• Used in written addresses.

(Definition of c/o from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

c/o | Business English

c/ouk us Add to word list Add to word list COMMUNICATIONS abbreviation for care of: used in addresses when the person you are writing to is staying at someone else's home: Sylvia Mendez, c/o Ann Smith, 12 Glastonbury Lane, Bickerton ACCOUNTING abbreviation for carried over: used to refer to an amount at the end of a page that is copied at the beginning of the next page (Definition of c/o from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) What is the pronunciation of c/o?

Translations of c/o

in Chinese (Traditional) 由…轉交（care of的縮寫）… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 由…转交（care of的缩写）… See more in Spanish forma abreviada de "care of":, en casa de, a cargo de… See more in Portuguese aos cuidados de, a/c… See more in Turkish in French in Japanese in Dutch in Czech in Danish in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Ukrainian ... eliyle, vasıtasıyla, dikkatine (mektup üzerine yazılır.)… See more aux bons soins de, chez… See more 気付（きづけ）… See more p/a… See more bytem u… See more c/o, hos, adresse… See more kepada… See more ในอารักขาของ… See more nhờ chuyển hộ… See more na adres, do rąk… See more c/o… See more s/k… See more c/o… See more c/o, til… See more скорочення для позначення власника адреси… See more Need a translator?

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More meanings of c/o

• c/o, at carried over
• c/o, at care of idiom
• c/o, at (in) care of idiom

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