All 13 Uses of
correspond
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Babbitt
- A week ago he had invented a system of leaving his cigar-case and cigarette-box in an unused drawer at the bottom of the correspondence-file, in the outer office.†
Chpt 4
- Interwoven with correspondence and advertisement-writing were a thousand nervous details: calls from clerks who were incessantly and hopefully seeking five furnished rooms and bath at sixty dollars a month; advice to Mat Penniman on getting money out of tenants who had no money.†
Chpt 4
- He took from the correspondence-file the entire box of cigars and forced them on his guests.†
Chpt 4 *
- He courageously returned the cigar-box to the correspondence-file, locked it up, hid the key in a more difficult place, and raged, "Ought to take care of myself.†
Chpt 5
- He said cautiously to his wife, "I've been in correspondence with a man in New York—wants me to see him about a real-estate trade—may not come off till summer.†
Chpt 6 (definition 1) *
- And then I could take up correspondence-courses.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2) *
- "That's so," said Mrs. Babbitt comfortably, while Ted complained: "Yuh, but Dad, they just teach a lot of old junk that isn't any practical use—except the manual training and typewriting and basketball and dancing—and in these correspondence-courses, gee, you can get all kinds of stuff that would come in handy.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- Well but—Yes—I just wanted to show how many different kinds of correspondence-courses there are, instead of all the camembert they teach us in the High.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- I knew this correspondence-school business had become a mighty profitable game—makes suburban real-estate look like two cents!†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- Course I'd never admit it publicly—fellow like myself, a State U. graduate, it's only decent and patriotic for him to blow his horn and boost the Alma Mater—but smatter of fact, there's a whole lot of valuable time lost even at the U., studying poetry and French and subjects that never brought in anybody a cent. I don't know but what maybe these correspondence-courses might prove to be one of the most important American inventions.†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- I think those correspondence-courses are terrible!†
Chpt 6 (definition 2)
- However accustomed to the literary labors of advertisements and correspondence, Babbitt was dismayed on the evening when he sat down to prepare a paper which would take a whole ten minutes to read.†
Chpt 13
- Carbon copies of the correspondence are in the company's files, where they may be viewed by any public commission.†
Chpt 19
Definitions:
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(1) (correspond as in: corresponding by email) communicate -- typically by writing letters or emaileditor's notes: A corresponding secretary is an officer of an organization who is responsible for managing the organization's correspondence and keeping a record of it.
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(2) (correspondence as in: a correspondence course) done from afareditor's notes: For example, a corresponding member or a correspondence course.
This sense of corresponding arose because people who lived in distant cities and could not be present for meetings, could communicate by sending written communications.
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(correspond as in: corresponding time period) connect or fit together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched
(Two things are equivalent if they have the same or very similar value, purpose, or result.)