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correspondence

[ kawr-uh-spon-duhns, kor- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

communication by exchange of letters.
a letter or letters that pass between correspondents:
It will take me all day to answer this business correspondence.
Also an instance of corresponding. correspond.
similarity or analogy.
agreement; conformity.
Synonyms: consonance, concord, accord
news, commentary, letters, etc., received from a newspaper or magazine correspondent.
Mathematics. function ( def 4a ).

correspondence

/ ˌkɒrɪˈspɒndəns /

1375–1425; late Middle English (< Middle French ) < Medieval Latin corrēspondentia. See correspondent, -ence

His correspondence, much of which survives, is that of an incisive and articulate observer.

While Google can argue that actual employees do not read your correspondence (their robots do), Facebook can make no such claim.

Describing by biographers as an avid writer of letters, little of his correspondence appears available to public view.

The correspondence between the two became, in effect, an alliance by stealth, waiting for events to make it safely transparent.

When their correspondence was finally disclosed, it needed careful parsing.

Two days later he walked into the office of the printing firm with which he had been in correspondence.

She made an end of her correspondence, and sat down to a delicious little supper alone; as she best liked to enjoy these treats.

The correspondence of the Library has quite materially increased in volume.

He believed in the value of viva voce discussion, and discouraged all unnecessary inter-departmental correspondence.

Correspondence formed but a small part in his method of dealing with departments.

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