ZIP code
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- noun
- /zɪp koʊd/
- US
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código postal
- 41571 is the zip code for Varney, Kentucky.
- ZIP code area
- residential ZIP code
- home ZIP code
He goes home and starts memorizing all the zip codes in America first.
- He goes home and starts memorizing all the zip codes in America first.
- But as Tom mentioned, what we know is that zip code makes a big difference to health.
- That property taxes pays for the school that is in your zip code.
- After that, to create a network, you need to expand outside of your zip code.
- And then I'll also need an IP that matches geographic or the zip code area that you are actually in.
- So we, we trained, we had over half the people living in those zip codes applied for this program called Westside Works.
- And where else in America do we tell people that you know, we check your zip code at the door?
- We know that socio economic situation which is correlated with your postal code or zip code is an important driver of that.
- There are certain zip codes that generate A disproportionate share of patents, of startups, of wealth, of jobs.
- You search by location, so you put in your zip code your town.
- Price per square foot search, zip code search, keyword search, days on market search.
Examples
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The bank mailed me a check, but with the wrong zip code.
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Please enter your five-digit zip code.
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So what are the things that make your zip code so powerful?
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You search by location, so you put in your zip code your town.
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My name, my street, my zip code, my e-mail address.
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Do you know your zip code, sir?
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I even gave him your zip code.
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Nearly all the residential ZIP codes in these four boroughs were represented in the sample.
Academic text (2003) -
What's your zip code?
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Please enter your ZIP code to complete the form.
Synonyms
65
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A code of numbers and letters added to a United States address to help deliver mail
2
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A short set of letters and numbers added to an address to help deliver mail
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A group of letters and numbers that is part of an address to help mail delivery
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning — a postal identifier used in the US — is directly derived from combining 'ZIP' (a mail-delivery code) with 'code' (an identifying label), so the overall sense is compositional. Cross-linguistic equivalents like 'postal code' or 'postcode' make this construction familiar, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will understand it.
Etymology
ZIP code comes from the US postal service in the 1960s. The part ZIP stands for the 'Zone Improvement Plan' and was chosen because it sounded like the short word 'zip', which means quick. So a ZIP code is the group of numbers in an address that helps sort mail and get it to people faster.