1. a strong piece of timber, metal, or the like, set upright as a support, a point of attachment, a place for displaying notices, etc.
2. one of the principal uprights of a piece of furniture, as one supporting a chair back or forming one corner of a chest of drawers.
3. a stack of 144 sheets of handmolded paper, interleaved with felt.
4. a pole on a racetrack indicating the point where a race begins or ends: the starting post.
5. the lane of a racetrack farthest from the infield; the outside lane.
6. Digital Technology.
• an online message that is submitted to a message board or electronic mailing list.
• text, images, etc., that are placed on a website: a blog post.
7. a thin metal bar affixed to the back of an earring and designed to pass through a pierced earlobe.

8. to affix (a notice, bulletin, etc.) to a post, wall, or the like.
9. to bring to public notice by or as by a poster or bill: to post a reward.
10. to denounce by a public notice or declaration: They were posted as spies.
11. to publish the name of in a list: to post a student on the dean's list.
12. to publish the name of (a ship) as missing or lost.
13. to placard (a wall, fence, etc.) with notices, bulletins, etc.: The wall was posted with announcements.
14. to put up signs on (land or other property) forbidding trespassing: The estate has been posted by the owner.
15. Digital Technology.
• to submit (an online message) to a message board or electronic mailing list.
• to place (text, images, etc.) on a website: I just posted some photos of my trip.

16. Digital Technology.
• to submit an online message to a message board or electronic mailing list.
• to place text, images, etc., on a website.

1. a position of duty, employment, or trust to which one is assigned or appointed: a diplomatic post.
2. the station or rounds of a person on duty, as a soldier, sentry or nurse.
3. a military station with permanent buildings.
4. a local unit of a veterans' organization.
5. a place on the floor in the stock exchange where a particular stock is traded.
6. (in the British military services) either of two bugle calls (first post and last post ) giving notice of the time to retire for the night, similar in purpose to the U.S. taps.
7. the body of troops occupying a military station.

8. to place or station at a post.
9. to provide or put up, as bail.
10. to appoint to a post of command.

1. Chiefly British.
• a single dispatch or delivery of mail.
• the mail itself.
• the letters and packages being delivered to a single recipient.
• an established mail system or service, especially under government authority.
2. post office (def. 1).
3. (formerly) one of a series of stations along a route, for furnishing relays of men and horses for carrying mail, currency, etc.
4. (formerly) a person who traveled express, especially over a fixed route, carrying mail, currency, etc.
5. a size of printing paper or, especially in Britain, of drawing or writing paper, about 16 × 20 inches (41 × 51 centimeters).
6. a size of book, from about 5 × 8 inches to 5.25 × 8.25 inches (13 × 20 centimeters to 13.33 × 21 centimeters), untrimmed, in the United States; 5 × 8 inches (13 × 20 centimeters), untrimmed, in England. Abbreviation: post 8vo
7. a size of book, about 8 × 10 inches (20 × 25 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: post 4vo

8. to place in a post office or a mailbox for transmission; mail.
9. Bookkeeping.
• to transfer (an entry or item), as from the journal to the ledger.
• to enter (an item) in due place and form.
• to make all the requisite entries in (the ledger, etc.).
10. to supply with up-to-date information; inform: Keep me posted on his activities.

11. to rise from and descend to the saddle in accordance with the rhythm of a horse at a trot.
12. to travel with speed; go or pass rapidly; hasten.

13. with speed or haste; posthaste.
14. by post or courier.
15. with post horses.

1. U.S. businessman: developed breakfast foods.
2. U.S. writer on social etiquette.
3. U.S. architect.
4. U.S. aviator.

1. a prefix, meaning “behind,” “after,” “later,” “subsequent to,” “posterior to,” occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (postscript), but now used freely in the formation of compound words (post-Elizabethan; postfix; postgraduate; postorbital).
2. a prefix occurring in compound words that refer to an environment in which the thing expressed in the second element of the word is no longer relevant or significant (post-truth; post-fact; post-race; post-gender).

1. a length of wood, metal, etc, fixed upright in the ground to serve as a support, marker, point of attachment, etc
2. horse racing
• either of two upright poles marking the beginning (starting post) and end (winning post) of a racecourse
• the finish of a horse race
3. any of the main upright supports of a piece of furniture, such as a four-poster bed

4. to fasten or put up (a notice) in a public place
5. to announce by means of or as if by means of a poster
6. to publish (a name) on a list

1. a position to which a person is appointed or elected; appointment; job
2. a position or station to which a person, such as a sentry, is assigned for duty
3. a permanent military establishment
4. either of two military bugle calls (first post and last post) ordering or giving notice of the time to retire for the night
5. See trading post (def. 1), trading post (def. 2)

6. to assign to or station at a particular place or position
7. to transfer to a different unit or ship on taking up a new appointment, etc

1. letters, packages, etc, that are transported and delivered by the Post Office; mail
2. a single collection or delivery of mail
3. an official system of mail delivery
4. an item of electronic mail made publicly available
5. (formerly) any of a series of stations furnishing relays of men and horses to deliver mail over a fixed route
6. a rider who carried mail between such stations
7. British another word for pillar box
8. British short for post office
9. a size of writing or printing paper, 15 1/4 by 19 inches or 16 1/2 by 21 inches (large post)
10. any of various book sizes, esp 5 1/4 by 8 1/4 inches (post octavo) and 8 1/4 by 10 1/4 inches (post quarto)
11. by the next mail in the opposite direction

12. to send by post
13. to make (electronic mail) publicly available
14. (tr) accounting
• to enter (an item) in a ledger
• to compile or enter all paper items in (a ledger)
15. to inform of the latest news (esp in the phrase keep someone posted)
16. (of a rider) to rise from and reseat oneself in a saddle in time with the motions of a trotting horse; perform a rising trot
17. (formerly) to travel with relays of post horses
18. to travel or dispatch with speed; hasten

19. with speed; rapidly
20. by means of post horses

1. point of sales terminal

1. after in time or sequence; following; subsequent
2. behind; posterior to

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