box number

短语

信箱号

词形变化

box numbers 复数 box numbers

别名

box no.

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A numerical address for postal correspondence, managed by a company or organisation on behalf of the addressee, and used e.g. for convenience, if one does not have a suitable physical address for receiving mail, or to avoid giving one's real address (e.g. in a newspaper advertisement).

    They didn't give me a proper address, only a box number.

    Would anyone with knowledge of the present whereabouts of Mrs Doris Miggins, formerly of Station Road, please contact Box No. 99, Puddletown Evening Gazette.

词源

Literally, the number of a box into which mail for a particular recipient is placed.

来源：wiktionary