care of

English

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation) ℅
• (abbreviation) c/-
• (abbreviation) c/o-

Preposition

care of

1. (mail) For distribution by (the named intermediary).

   Could you please send this package to Mr. John Smith, care of the Northwest Shelter?

   Mailing address example:

John Smith
c/o Northwest Shelter
123 Emerson Dr
Springfield CA 94301

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. In Australia and New Zealand c/- is often used in place of ℅.

External links

Care of on the Norwegian Wikipedia.no.Wikipedia Care of on the Swedish Wikipedia.sv.Wikipedia

Translations

for distribution by (the named intermediary)

• Arabic: عِنَايَة ‎(ʿināya), رِعَايَة ‎(riʿāya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 代收 (zh)

• Dutch: per adres
• French: a/s, aux bons soins de (fr), à l'attention de (fr)
• German: c/o (de)

• Italian: presso (it)
• Japanese: 気付 ‎(きづけ, kizuke), 方 (ja) ‎(kata)
• Portuguese: a/c, aos cuidados de
• Spanish: a/a, a la atención de
• Turkish: ... eliyle (tr)