C/o - Wiktionary

See also: Appendix:Variations of "co"

English

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Preposition

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c/o

Examples (mailing address)
Mr. John Q. Teacher c/o Independence High School 1776 Oak Park Ave. Freedom Heights, IL 55512-zxx

1. (shipping) Abbreviation of care of, used to identify an intermediary who is responsible for transferring a piece of mail between the postal system and the final addressee.
   • 1976-1977, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure Sunday I penned my letter, Monday I mailed it c/o the high school.
   Anna c/o Bob ― Anna at Bob's address Send your mail to me c/o Mr. John Smith. “But he sent it to you, didn't he?” “No, he sent it to himself c/o me.”
2. (medicine) Abbreviation of complain of, used to identify symptoms described by a patient.
   • 2009, Carol J. Rollins, “Adult Enteral Nutrition”, in Terry L. Schinghammer, Julia M. Koehler, editors, Pharmacotherapy Casebook: A Patient-Focused Approach‎[1], 7th edition, McGraw Hill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 366:She was admitted to the hospital 6 days ago with c/o nausea, vomiting, and RUQ [right upper quadrant of the abdomen] pain. Her diet has not advanced beyond clear liquids, which she failed to tolerate on two attempts. Roa continues to c/o nausea and RUQ pain.
3. Abbreviation of corner of; frequently used especially in Namibia for physical addresses.

Usage notes

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• (medicine): Frequently used in the notes taken by a doctor during a medical encounter.

Alternative forms

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• (care of): ℅, c/-

Translations

[edit] (abbreviation) identifies intermediary in delivering mail — see also care of

Chinese: Mandarin: (please verify) 由……轉交 / 由……转交 (yóu…zhuǎnjiāo) Dutch: p/a Esperanto: p/a, z/d Finnish: c/o (fi) French: a/s German: p. Adr. (de), p. A. (de), c/o (de) Hungarian: címén Italian: c/o (it) Japanese: (please verify) 方 (ja) (kata) Portuguese: a/c, Spanish: a/a Swedish: c/o (sv) Turkish: e.e

Noun

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c/o (plural c/o's or c/os)

1. (shipping) Initialism of certificate of origin, a document describing a product's country of origin.

Alternative forms

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• C/O
• CO

See also

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• d/o (“daughter of”)
• s/o (“son of”)

Anagrams

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• Oc, O. C., oc, Oc., O.C., OC

Swedish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English c/o, an abbreviation of English care of. First attested in 1906[1].

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈkɛːrˌov/, more or less like English

• Audio (Småland):

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Preposition

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c/o

1. c/o Anders Anderson c/o Sven Svenson, Kungsgatan 12Anders Anderson c/o Sven Svenson, King's Street 12

See also

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• poste restante

References

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1. ^ c/o in Svensk ordbok (SO)