c/o

c/​o c/​o

written abbreviation for care of, used when you are sending something to someone who is living in someone else's house or receiving mail at their place of work:

• John Hammond, c/​o Dowling Music College, Bethesda, Maryland

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c/o

► COMMUNICATIONS ABBREVIATION for care of: used in addresses when the person you are writing to is staying at someone else's home: »

Sylvia Mendez, c/o Ann Smith, 12 Glastonbury Lane, Bickerton

► ACCOUNTING ABBREVIATION for carried over: used to refer to an amount at the end of a page that is copied at the beginning of the next page