c/o

See also: Appendix:Variations of "co"

English

Alternative forms

℅‎
c/-

Preposition

c/o

Abbreviation of care of.
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.”
Initialism of certificate of origin, a document used for shipping purposes. Describes country of origin of a given product.

Usage notes

Care of, usually abbreviated as c/o on envelopes, signifies an intermediary who is responsible for transferring a piece of mail between the postal system and the final addressee. For example when the addressee has no standard address, is under a corporate mail system, or is being manually forwarded mail sent to a more accessible location.

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

Related terms

(care of): d/o (daughter of), s/o (son of)

Translations

An intermediary who is responsible for transferring a piece of mail between the postal system and the final addressee.

Esperanto: p/a (per adreso)
Hungarian: címén

Japanese: 方
Turkish: e.e (eliyle) (literally: with the hand of)

Anagrams

O. C., O.C., OC, Oc, Oc.

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