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open letter en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A letter addressed to one person, or more, but published (as for example in a newspaper) for the public to read.
   • More than 60 rail supply business leaders signed an open letter to Rishi Sunak on May 9 urging him to bring forward the bill which would formally establish GBR. 2023 May 31, Tammy Samuel, Fergus McLaverty, “The political picture: what lies ahead for Britain's railways?”, in RAIL, number 984, page 30:
   • For months, Dati warned she would refuse to stand aside. Now she has stunned the political class with an open letter to Fillon in Le Monde, a scathing character assassination accusing him of the "lone ambition" of a disillusioned political elite, of doing politics in a way that "never favoured women" and stopping ethnic-minority candidates from progressing at elections. She said he was committing "a sad mistake" in trying to run in Paris. 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian:

Forms

Hyponyms

letters patent

Relateds

epistle

Translations (16)

ro scrisoare deschisă (published letter) · ja 公開書簡 (published letter) · fi avoin kirje (published letter) · az açıq məktub (published letter) · pl list otwarty (published letter) · fr lettre ouverte (published letter) · cmn 公開信 /公开信 (published letter) · ja 公開状 (published letter) · ru откры́тое письмо́ (published letter) · de offener Brief (published letter) · vi bức thư ngỏ (published letter) · hu nyílt levél (published letter) · tr açık mektup (published letter) · cs otevřený dopis (published letter) · ka ღია წერილი (published letter) · crh açıq mektüp (published letter)