general delivery

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++

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ˌgeneral deˈlivery noun [uncountable]  American EnglishTCM a post office department that keeps someone’s letters until that person comes to get them 邮件存局候领处 SYN British English poste restante

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general delivery• As with the general delivery of curriculum, there is unlikely to be one single effective model.From Longman Business Dictionarygeneral deliveryˌgeneral deˈlivery noun [uncountable] American English a post office department to which you can send letters for someone, and which will keep them until they are collectedSYN BrE poste restante

ˌgeneral deˈlivery nounChineseSyllable  

that office post Business keeps Corpus a department

general delivery
ˌgeneral deˈlivery noun [uncountable]
American English a post office department that keeps someone’s letters until that person comes to get them
   SYN  poste restante British English

general deliveryBrE /ˌdʒenrəl dɪˈlɪvəri/ 🔊NAmE /ˌdʒenrəl dɪˈlɪvəri/ 🔊 (NAmE) (BrE poste rest·ante) noun [uncountable] an arrangement in which a post office keeps a person's mail until they go to collect it, used especially when sb is travelling 邮件寄存服务，存局候领（邮局暂为保管以候收件人上门自取）