Definition of post

adjective (a)

• Hired to do what is wrong; suborned. (adjective)

  source: webster1913

noun (n)

• the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand (noun.location)

  Synonym: station
  

  Example:
  A soldier manned the entrance post.
  

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• military installation at which a body of troops is stationed (noun.artifact)

  Synonym: military post
  

  Example:
  This military post provides an important source of income for the town nearby.
  There is an officer's club on the post.
  

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• a job in an organization (noun.act)

  Synonym: berth, billet, office, place, position, situation, spot
  

  Example:
  He occupied a post in the treasury.
  

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• an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position (noun.artifact)

  Example:
  He set a row of posts in the ground and strung barbwire between them.
  

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• United States aviator who in 1933 made the first solo flight around the world (1899-1935) (noun.person)

  Synonym: wiley post
  

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• United States female author who wrote a book and a syndicated newspaper column on etiquette (1872-1960) (noun.person)

  Synonym: emily post, emily price post
  

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• United States manufacturer of breakfast cereals and Postum (1854-1914) (noun.person)

  Synonym: c. w. post, charles william post
  

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• any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered (noun.group)

  Synonym: mail
  

  Example:
  Is there any post for me?.
  She was opening her post.
  

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• a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track) (noun.communication)

  Synonym: stake
  

  Example:
  A pair of posts marked the goal.
  

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• the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office (noun.communication)

  Synonym: mail, mail service, postal service
  

  Example:
  In England they call mail `the post'.
  

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• the delivery and collection of letters and packages (noun.act)

  Example:
  It came by the first post.
  If you hurry you'll catch the post.
  

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• A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as a stay or support to something else; a pillar; as, a hitching post; a fence post; the posts of a house. (noun)

  source: webster1913
• The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station. (noun)

  source: webster1913

adverb (r)

• With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post. (adverb)

  source: webster1913

verb (v)

• affix in a public place or for public notice (verb.contact)

  Example:
  Post a warning.
  

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• publicize with, or as if with, a poster (verb.communication)

  Example:
  I'll post the news on the bulletin board.
  

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• assign to a post; put into a post (verb.social)

  Example:
  The newspaper posted him in Timbuktu.
  

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• assign to a station (verb.competition)

  Synonym: place, send, station
  

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• display, as of records in sports games (verb.communication)

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• enter on a public list (verb.social)

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• transfer (entries) from one account book to another (verb.possession)

  Synonym: carry
  

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• ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait (verb.motion)

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• mark with a stake (verb.contact)

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• place so as to be noticed (verb.contact)

  Synonym: put up
  

  Example:
  Post a sign.
  Post a warning at the dump.
  

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• cause to be directed or transmitted to another place (verb.communication)

  Synonym: mail, send
  

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• mark or expose as infamous (verb.communication)

  Synonym: brand
  

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• To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice; to post playbills. (verb)

  source: webster1913
• To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste. (verb)

  source: webster1913

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