All 10 Uses of
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Of Human Bondage
- Mr. Carey was unused to work, and he turned to his correspondence with resentment.†
Chpt 3-4 (definition 1)
- She had kept up a correspondence with Mrs. Carey, and two or three times had spent her holidays at Blackstable Vicarage, paying as was usual with the Careys' unfrequent guests a small sum for her keep.†
Chpt 21-22 (definition 1) *
- She could never, never do this, and corresponded with him continually, and he was making every effort to induce an exasperating father to change his mind.†
Chpt 23-24
- They corresponded.†
Chpt 31-32 *
- That made him none the less eager to enter it; and when, in due course, Mrs. Carey, acting as the correspondent for his guardian's views, suggested that it was time for him to come back to England, he agreed with enthusiasm.†
Chpt 31-32 (definition 2) *
- The work was a little harder than the corresponding work on the medical side.†
Chpt 95-96
- He knew French and German and thought there might be some chance of finding a job as correspondence clerk; it made his heart sink, but he set his teeth; there was nothing else to do.†
Chpt 99-100
- The Rev. William Carey had prided himself on never destroying anything, and there were piles of correspondence dating back for fifty years and bundles upon bundles of neatly docketed bills.†
Chpt 111-112
- The rest of the afternoon and all the evening Philip toiled through the innumerable correspondence.†
Chpt 111-112
- He went on with the Vicar's dreary correspondence.†
Chpt 111-112
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) (correspondent as in: foreign correspondent of the paper) a reporter -- typically from a foreign country or with a particular expertise
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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.)