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Meanings of postcode in English

Portuguese
código de endereçamento postal
Catalan
codi postal

A code of letters and digits added to a postal address to aid in the sorting of mail.

código de endereçamento postal
Usage of postcode in English
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The gun violence plaguing the area is largely based on postcode territorialism.
The Guardian
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The extent of area deprivation was defined by postcode, using Carstairs scores.
Pubmed
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It confirms the group's findings in previous years of a postcode lottery.
The Guardian
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Caithness and parts of Sutherland currently share the same postcode as Orkney.
BBC
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We are going to end the historic postcode lottery in school funding.
The Guardian
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The postcode with the lowest average taxable income is 2387 in NSW.
The Guardian
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The postcode with the second-lowest average taxable income is 4423 in Queensland.
The Guardian
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Enter your location or postcode in the search box to see your result.
BBC
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For the seniors, it's a different story in a different postcode.
The Guardian
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He was given neither a name nor postcode of the victim.
Reuters
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The Eircode system will give every house in the country a unique postcode.
The Irish Times
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Ireland's unstructured addressing presented an opportunity to impose structure through an ordered postcode.
The Irish Times
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The postcode lottery has long determined a student's prospects of going to college.
The Irish Times
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You will be asked to input your postcode and charged accordingly.
The Guardian
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His situation is even more bizarre because his street is divided by postcode.
News.com.au
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It's not just a postcode lottery -it's also a tax code lottery.
The Guardian
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