in care of

Idioms  

1. Through someone, by way of someone, as in I sent the gift in care of your parents. This phrase indicates that something is to be delivered to someone at someone else's address. [Mid-1800s] Also see in charge, def. 3.

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in care of

The home’s tax bills are sent to the limited liability company, in care of Garvey’s mother-in-law, to an address in La Quinta, Calif., property records show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2024

About 20 staff and children in care of an orphanage on the outskirts of the town are believed to be its only remaining residents.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 30, 2021

All the while she writes letters to her sister in “Europe,” in care of her parents’ address.

From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2019

A few months earlier, I’d been given two hundred and thirty letters sent to me in care of my publishing house.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 25, 2019

Then she noticed Mohammed’s writing, addressed to her in care of the University of Biafra, in long elegant sweeps.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie