"c/o" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: o [canonical], os [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} o (plural os)
  1. (shipping) Initialism of certificate of origin, a document describing a product's country of origin. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: certificate of origin (extra: a document describing a product's country of origin) Categories (topical): Shipping, Post Synonyms: C/O, CO
    Sense id: en-c/o-en-noun-UbCuow0P Disambiguation of Post: 46 36 19 Topics: economics, science, sciences, shipping, transport

Preposition

Forms: o [canonical]
Head templates: {{head|en|prepositions|head=}} o, {{en-prep}} o
  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. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form 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 Categories (topical): Shipping Synonyms (care of): , c/- Related terms (care of): d/o (english: daughter of), s/o (english: son of) Translations ((abbreviation) identifies intermediary in delivering mail — see also care of): p (Dutch), a (Dutch), p (Esperanto), a (Esperanto), z (Esperanto), d (Esperanto), c (Finnish), o (Finnish), a (French), s (French), p. Adr. (German), p. A. (German), c (German), o (German), címén (Hungarian), c (Italian), o (Italian), a (Portuguese), c (Portuguese), a (Spanish), c (Swedish), o (Swedish), e.e (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-c/o-en-prep-4lO0xF6p Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English prepositions, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 52 26 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 24 52 24 Disambiguation of English prepositions: 24 57 19 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 26 51 23 Topics: economics, science, sciences, shipping, transport Disambiguation of 'care of': 93 7 Disambiguation of 'care of': 93 7 Disambiguation of '(abbreviation) identifies intermediary in delivering mail — see also care of': 69 31
  2. (medicine) Abbreviation of complain of, used to identify symptoms described by a patient. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: complain of, used to identify symptoms described by a patient Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-c/o-en-prep-7EVHNchP Topics: medicine, sciences

Alternative forms

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English prepositions",
    "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "Requests for review of Japanese translations",
    "Requests for review of Mandarin translations",
    "en:Post"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "o",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "os",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "o (plural os)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "a document describing a product's country of origin",
          "word": "certificate of origin"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English initialisms",
        "en:Shipping"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of certificate of origin, a document describing a product's country of origin."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shipping",
          "shipping#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "certificate of origin",
          "certificate of origin#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(shipping) Initialism of certificate of origin, a document describing a product's country of origin."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "economics",
        "science",
        "sciences",
        "shipping",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "C/O"
    },
    {
      "word": "CO"
    }
  ],
  "word": "c/o"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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