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post
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Meanings
noun
  • a long, sturdy piece of timber or metal set upright in the ground and used as a support or marker.
    E.g. follow the blue posts until the track meets a road
  • a piece of writing, image, or other item of content published online, typically on a blog or social media website or application.
    E.g. in a recent post, he cautioned investors to be wary of these predictions
verb
  • display (a notice) in a public place.
    E.g. a curt notice had been posted on the door
  • announce or publish (something, especially a financial result).
    E.g. the company posted a £460,000 loss
  • (of a player or team) achieve or record (a particular score or result).
    E.g. Smith and Lamb posted a century partnership
noun
  • the official service or system that delivers letters and parcels.
    E.g. winners will be notified by post
  • each of a series of couriers who carried mail on horseback between fixed stages.
verb
  • send (a letter or parcel) via the postal system.
    E.g. I've just been to post a letter
  • (in bookkeeping) enter (an item) in a ledger.
    E.g. post the transaction in the second column
  • travel with relays of horses.
    E.g. we posted in an open carriage
adverb
  • with haste.
    E.g. come now, come post
noun
  • a position of paid employment; a job.
    E.g. he resigned from the post of Foreign Minister
  • a place where someone is on duty or where a particular activity is carried out.
    E.g. a shift worker asleep at his post
  • the status or rank of full-grade captain in the Royal Navy.
    E.g. Captain Miller was made post in 1796
verb
  • send (someone) to a place to take up an appointment.
    E.g. he was posted to Washington as military attaché
preposition
  • subsequent to; after.
    E.g. American poetry post the 1950s hasn't had the same impact
noun
  • work done on a film or recording after filming or recording has taken place.
    E.g. the rest of the effects were added in post
post-
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Meanings
prefix
  • after in time or order.
    E.g. post-date
  • behind in position.

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