poste restante

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French poste restante.

Noun

poste restante (uncountable)

1. A postal service in which mail is held at a post office to be collected by the recipient

Synonyms

• general delivery (US, Canada)
• to be called for (UK)

Translations

a service where the post office holds mail until the recipient calls for it

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 留局候領／留局候领, 留局候领 (liújúhòulǐng)

• Finnish: poste restante (fi), noutoposti (fi)
• French: poste restante (fr) f
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• German: Postlagerservice m
• Hungarian: postán maradó
• Italian: fermoposta m
• Japanese: 局留め (きょくどめ, kyokudome)
• Russian: (слу́жба) до востре́бования (ru) (do vostrébovanija)