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Webster 1828 Edition


Addressing

ADDRESS'ING

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ppr.
Speaking or applying to, directing; courting; consigning.

Definition 2024


addressing

addressing

English

Verb

addressing

  1. present participle of address

Noun

addressing (usually uncountable, plural addressings)

  1. A process of putting a person's name and address on an item of mail
  2. (computing) Any of several methods of locating and accessing information within storage
  3. (linguistics) A mode, manner, or form of direct one's speech to an audience.
    • 2010, R. S. Perinbanayagam, Discursive acts: language, signs, and selves, page 118:
      Just as a social inferior should not adopt a domineering structure of words and addressings, so a social superior must manage to inject just the right degree of condescension into his or her locutions

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