1. (of mail) marked with a destination
   "I throw away all mail addressed to ‘resident’"

1. Direct one's attention, effort, or appeal toward
   "He addressed the crowd outside the window";
   - turn to
    
2. Give a speech to
   "The chairman addressed the board of trustees";
   - speak
    
3. Give attention to something; direct efforts towards something, such as how to solve a problem
   "We need to address this issue first"
    
4. Put an address on (an envelope)
   "She addressed the letter to her grandmother";
   - direct
    
5. Greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name
   "He always addresses me with ‘Sir’";
   - call
    
6. Act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
   "The course addressed all of Western Civilization";
   - cover, treat, handle, plow [N. Amer], deal, plough [Brit, Cdn]
    
7. (golf) adjust and aim (a golf ball) at in preparation of hitting
   "He carefully addressed the ball before taking his swing"
    
8. Direct a question at someone
   "The journalist addressed a controversial question to the politician"
    
9. (computing) access or locate by address
   "The CPU addressed the memory location to retrieve the data"; "The software addresses specific sectors on the hard drive"

See also: self-addressed

Type of: access, adjust, aim, align, aline [non-standard], apply, broach, communicate, direct, employ, express, give tongue to, initiate, intercommunicate, label, line up, place, point, target, use, utilise [Brit], utilize, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize

Antonym: unaddressed

Encyclopedia: Address