postcode
noun
post·code
ˈpōs(t)-ˌkōd 
: a code (as of numbers and letters) used similarly to the zip code especially in the United Kingdom and Australia
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The hotel has the feel of a stylish London residence and houses 263 guestrooms and 45 suites including the Grand Manor House Wing, an exclusive seven-bedroom suite with its very own postcode.
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Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
The very specific territorial allegiance of Londoners to their postcodes was important to the show’s original identity.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
The Serpentine has two separate gallery spaces, each situated in Hyde Park—a 350-acre public park in West London, frequented mostly by tourists and the citizens of the wealthy neighboring postcodes.
—Oskar Oprey, Artforum, 28 Jan. 2025
In fact, the club returned to the very same street, with the Cherry Red Records Stadium sitting just a few hundred yards — albeit in a different postcode — along Plough Lane from where Vinnie Jones, John Fashanu and co shook up the football establishment.
—Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 12 Aug. 2024
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Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
The very specific territorial allegiance of Londoners to their postcodes was important to the show’s original identity.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
The Serpentine has two separate gallery spaces, each situated in Hyde Park—a 350-acre public park in West London, frequented mostly by tourists and the citizens of the wealthy neighboring postcodes.
—Oskar Oprey, Artforum, 28 Jan. 2025
In fact, the club returned to the very same street, with the Cherry Red Records Stadium sitting just a few hundred yards — albeit in a different postcode — along Plough Lane from where Vinnie Jones, John Fashanu and co shook up the football establishment.
—Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 12 Aug. 2024
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“Postcode.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postcode. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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