c/o

See also: Appendix:Variations of "co"

English

Alternative forms

• ℅‎
• c/-

Preposition

c/o

1. Abbreviation of care of.

   Anna c/o Bob (“Anna at Bob's address”)

   Send your mail to me c/o Mr. John Smith.

   “But he sent it to you, didn't he?” “No, he sent it to himself c/o me.”

2. Initialism of certificate of origin, a document used for shipping purposes. Describes country of origin of a given product.

Usage notes

Care of, usually abbreviated as c/o on envelopes, signifies an intermediary who is responsible for transferring a piece of mail between the postal system and the final addressee. For example when the addressee has no standard address, is under a corporate mail system, or is being manually forwarded mail sent to a more accessible location.

Related terms

• (care of): d/o (daughter of), s/o (son of)

Translations

An intermediary who is responsible for transferring a piece of mail between the postal system and the final addressee.

• Esperanto: p/a (per adreso)
• Japanese: 方

• Turkish: e.e (eliyle) (literally: with the hand of)

Anagrams

• OC, Oc, Oc.