- correspondence
- noun1 letters exchangedADJECTIVE▪ confidential, personal, private▪ business, diplomatic, official▪ regular▪ email, written▪ extensive, voluminous… OF CORRESPONDENCE▪ item (BrE)▪
Numerous items of correspondence have been received on this subject.
▪ pile (esp. BrE)▪He was leafing through piles of correspondence.
VERB + CORRESPONDENCE▪ enter into, exchange, have▪It would be foolish for a doctor to enter into correspondence with a patient.
▪I have had correspondence with the company director on this matter.
▪ carry on, keep up, maintain▪We kept up a correspondence for many months.
▪ address, send▪Please send correspondence to ‘Money Monthly’.
▪ receive▪ read▪ answer, deal with, handle▪The secretary deals with all the correspondence.
▪ catch up on▪I would spend the time reading or catching up on my correspondence.
▪ intercept▪The department intercepted the correspondence of foreign diplomats.
CORRESPONDENCE + NOUN▪ course, school (AmE)▪I did a correspondence course in economics.
▪ column (esp. BrE)▪the correspondence columns of the ‘London Review of Books’
PREPOSITION▪ by correspondence, through correspondence▪All our business is conducted by correspondence.
▪ in correspondence with▪I have been in correspondence with the manager of the store.
▪ correspondence about, correspondence concerning, correspondence on, correspondence regarding, correspondence relating to▪files full of confidential correspondence relating to the company's expansion plans
▪ correspondence between▪I have seen the correspondence between the company and the college.
▪ correspondence from▪The editor welcomes correspondence from readers on any subject.
▪ correspondence with▪copies of her correspondence with the composer
2 connectionADJECTIVE▪ direct, exact, one-to-one▪The child can see the one-to-one correspondence of the buttons and buttonholes.
▪ closePREPOSITION▪ correspondence between▪a close correspondence between theory and practice
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
