forwarding
18
3.2
- noun
- /ˈfɔːrwərdɪŋ/
:
reenvío
- Well, can you see if there'd be any kind of forwarding address for Dr. Becker?
- forwarding address
Examples
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Oh, Sarah, why don't you move and not leave a forwarding address?
Fiction book (1992) -
Minnie and Earl had moved out, all right, and there was no forwarding address to be had.
Fiction book (2001) -
Did they leave a forwarding address?
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A week after the body was discovered, Mr. Smith moved out and left no forwarding address.
Fiction book (1994) -
You moved and left no forwarding address.
Fiction book (2001) -
We asked over there at the clinic, but no one seemed to have a forwarding address.
Fiction book (1991) -
Just a notation here that correspondence sent to him was returned with no forwarding address.
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The woman at the desk said he moved to the coast, didn't leave any forwarding information.
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She didn't mention a forwarding address?
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Before leaving for college, she provided a forwarding address so her friends could stay in touch.
Synonyms
122
3.6
The sending of information or messages from one person to another
2
1.9
The sending of letters or packages by post
1
7.5
To send something, often a document, from one person or place to another
1
3.5
An act of sending information from one place to another
1
4.1
Sending data, requests, or program output to a different place on computers and networks
1
1.0
To cause a message or document to go somewhere else
Compounds
- Specialized
1
3.4
A phone service that sends incoming calls to another phone number you choose
How Wide
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Forwarding comes from the word forward, which means 'toward the front' or 'ahead'. Think of passing a letter on so it moves 'ahead' to a new place, and that is why forwarding means sending something on to another destination.