correspondence
2 ENTRIES FOUND:
plural
correspondences
plural
correspondences
Britannica Dictionary definition of CORRESPONDENCE
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the activity of writing letters or e-mails to someone
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They communicated by telephone and correspondence.
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E-mail correspondence has become extremely important for modern businesses.
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The two men began a correspondence that would continue throughout their lives.
2
[noncount]
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the letters or e-mails that people write to each other
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A book of the author's personal correspondence was published early last year.
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A formal tone is always used in business correspondence.
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I have a pile of correspondence [=letters from people] on my desk.
3
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a direct relationship to or with something or between two things
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Note the correspondence of each number to a location on the map.
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Sometimes there is little correspondence between the way a word is spelled and the way it is pronounced in English.
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Sometimes there are few correspondences between spelling and pronunciation.
4
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the fact of being similar or equal to something
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The degree of correspondence between the two texts is startling. [=it is startling to see how closely they resemble each other]
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There is a close correspondence between the two texts.
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There are many correspondences between them.
