post
/poust/
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Definition
Noun:
- A long, sturdy piece of timber or metal fixed upright: A "post" is a pole or stake set into the ground, often used as a support or marker.
- The system for collecting and delivering letters and packages: "Post" refers to the mail service or the letters and packages themselves.
- A job or position of employment, especially a specific duty or station: A "post" is an assigned place or job, often with official responsibilities.
- A military base or the place where a soldier is stationed: A "post" is a place where troops are stationed or a soldier's assigned place of duty.
Verb:
- To display or affix in a public place: To "post" something means to put up a notice or sign for public viewing.
- To send via the mail system: To "post" a letter or package is to send it through the postal service.
- To assign to a specific place or duty: To "post" someone is to assign them to a particular job or station.
- To record or enter in a ledger: In accounting, to "post" is to transfer entries to a formal record or ledger.
- To make information publicly known, especially online: To "post" information is to publish it, particularly on the internet.
Examples
Noun:
- He set a wooden post in the ground to mark the corner of his property.
- I check my post every morning when I get to the office.
- She was offered a post as a senior analyst at the bank.
- The soldier returned to his post after his leave.
Verb:
- The manager will post the new schedule on the bulletin board.
- Don't forget to post those birthday cards today.
- After graduation, he was posted to an embassy overseas.
- The accountant needs to post these transactions to the general ledger.
- He posted a photo of his vacation on social media.
Advanced Usage
"to keep someone posted": to regularly provide someone with the latest information or updates.
- Please keep me posted on any developments in the case.
"first post" / "last post": In military contexts, these are bugle calls signaling the start and end of the day, or played at memorial services.
- The sound of the Last Post echoed across the cemetery.
"by return of post": (somewhat dated) by the next available mail delivery in reply.
- He promised to send a reply by return of post.
Variants and Related Words
Posting (n): The act of putting something up or sending it by mail; also, an assigned position or job, especially in a foreign location.
- His latest posting is in Singapore.
Postage (n): The charge for sending an item by mail.
- The postage for this package is quite high.
Postal (adj): Relating to the mail service.
- The postal service delivers millions of letters daily.
Synonyms
- Noun (Pole): Pole, stake, pillar, column.
- Noun (Mail): Mail, correspondence.
- Noun (Job): Position, job, appointment, station.
- Verb (Display): Display, affix, pin up, put up.
- Verb (Send): Mail, send, dispatch.
Related Phrasal Verbs
Post up: To take up a stationary position, often to wait or guard.
- The security guard posted up at the entrance for the night.
Post away: To be assigned to a distant location.
- He was posted away to a remote region for two years.
Related Idioms
"Pillar to post": (From "driven from pillar to post") To be forced to go from one place to another, especially when being harassed or given the runaround.
- I've been driven from pillar to post trying to get this permit approved.
"As deaf as a post": Completely deaf or refusing to listen.
- I shouted his name, but he's as deaf as a post and didn't hear me.
Verb
- mark or expose as infamous
- She was branded a loose woman
- cause to be directed or transmitted to another place
- send me your latest results
- I'll mail you the paper when it's written
- place so as to be noticed
- post a sign
- post a warning at the dump
- mark with a stake
- stake out the path
- ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait
- transfer (entries) from one account book to another
- enter on a public list
- display, as of records in sports games
- assign to a station
- assign to a post; put into a post
- The newspaper posted him in Timbuktu
- publicize with, or as if with, a poster
- I'll post the news on the bulletin board
- affix in a public place or for public notice
- post a warning
Noun
- the delivery and collection of letters and packages
- it came by the first post
- if you hurry you'll catch the post
- the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office
- the mail handles billions of items every day
- he works for the United States mail service
- in England they call mail `the post'
- a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)
- a pair of posts marked the goal
- the corner of the lot was indicated by a stake
- any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered
- your mail is on the table
- is there any post for me?
- she was opening her post
- United States manufacturer of breakfast cereals and Postum (1854-1914)
- United States female author who wrote a book and a syndicated newspaper column on etiquette (1872-1960)
- United States aviator who in 1933 made the first solo flight around the world (1899-1935)
- an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position
- he set a row of posts in the ground and strung barbwire between them
- a job in an organization
- he occupied a post in the treasury
- military installation at which a body of troops is stationed
- this military post provides an important source of income for the town nearby
- there is an officer's club on the post
- the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand
- a soldier manned the entrance post
- a sentry station