- [uncountable] the letters, emails, etc. a person sends and receives
- personal/private correspondence
- The editor welcomes correspondence from readers on any subject.
- the correspondence column/page (= in a newspaper)
- correspondence with somebody Jane Austen's correspondence with her sister
Extra Examples- He was leafing through piles of correspondence.
- I have seen the correspondence between the company and the college.
- Numerous items of correspondence have been received on this subject.
- Please send correspondence to ‘Money Monthly’.
- The department intercepted the correspondence of foreign diplomats.
- The secretary deals with all the correspondence.
- copies of her correspondence with the composer
- files full of confidential correspondence relating to the company's expansion plans
- the correspondence columns of the ‘London Review of Books’
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- confidential
- personal
- private
- …
- item
- pile
- enter into
- exchange
- have
- …
- course
- school
- column
- …
- by correspondence
- through correspondence
- in correspondence with
- …
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- [uncountable, countable] the activity of writing letters
- correspondence (with somebody) I refused to enter into any correspondence (= to exchange letters) with him about it.
- in correspondence We have been in correspondence for months.
- We kept up a correspondence for many years.
Extra Examples- I have been in correspondence with the manager of the store.
- I have had correspondence with the company director on this matter.
- I would spend the time reading or catching up on my correspondence.
- We would certainly be happy to enter into correspondence with interested parties about the idea.
- a lively correspondence in ‘The Times’ about ways of preparing tripe
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- confidential
- personal
- private
- …
- item
- pile
- enter into
- exchange
- have
- …
- course
- school
- column
- …
- by correspondence
- through correspondence
- in correspondence with
- …
- [countable, uncountable] correspondence (between A and B) a connection between two things; the fact of two things being similar
- There is a close correspondence between the two extracts.
Extra Examples- The child can see the one-to-one correspondence of the buttons and buttonholes.
- a close correspondence between theory and practice
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- direct
- exact
- one-to-one
- …
- correspondence between
Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin correspondentia, from correspondent- ‘corresponding’ from the verb correspondere, from cor- ‘together’ + Latin respondere, from re- ‘again’ + spondere ‘to pledge’.
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