How to Use postcode in a Sentence

postcode

noun
Definition of postcodenext
  • The Moon stays in this airy sign until Wednesday morning at 11:15 a.m. Catch up with friends who are from outside of your postcode.
    — Venus Australis, refinery29.com, 9 June 2019
  • In Britain, health care access and health care outcomes are known to vary radically by postcode (the British term for the American zip code).
    — John C. Goodman, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The strict laws also sent night owls into new areas outside the lockout precinct, effectively moving the problem to a new postcode.
    — Jack Tregoning, Billboard, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The app also uses Bluetooth tracing but doesn't ask for personal details aside from the first part of a person's postcode, though the data will be centrally housed.
    — Hadas Gold, CNN, 5 June 2020
  • In August last year, most NHS trusts would still not allow partners to attend prenatal scans and as the months drew on, the rules women were subject to became something of a postcode lottery.
    — Natasha Preskey, refinery29.com, 28 May 2021
  • Some provinces could afford it, others couldn’t, which ended up creating a postcode lottery for artists.
    — Shain Shapiro, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Enter their postcode into the citymapper app for directions.
    — Ben Redshaw, Cincinnati.com, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Potential diners simply plug their postcode (or zip code) into a government website for a list of participating pubs and restaurants, which is pretty much all of them in most areas.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Finally, each installation of the app was associated with one of 338 postcode districts.
    — John Drake, Forbes, 21 May 2021
  • From undocumented minimum-wage workers in the world’s richest postcodes to job-seekers flooding into swelling metropolises, the urban poor often have limited access to health care, no medical insurance and no financial safety net.
    — Archana Chaudhary, Bloomberg.com, 15 May 2020
  • Like other local authorities, this council did not until recently have postcode-level data on infections, which is essential for controlling outbreaks.
    — Rachel Shabi, The New York Review of Books, 8 July 2020

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