单词 | field post office |
释义 | field post officen. A military post office provided for soldiers in the field. Cf. field post n.2 ΚΠ 1797 Bailey's Dict. Eng.-German & German-Eng. II. 168/1 Feldpostamt, field-post-office. 1810 Lady's Mag. Apr. 187/2 The French field-post office is at present established here, apparently for the accommodation of the army assembled on the frontier of Brandenburgh. 1895 A. L. Wagner Organization & Tactics 28 The service of the field post-office, if not performed by civilian employés of the Post-Office Department, should be placed in the hands of general service clerks. 1918 E. Atkinson Poilu v. 115 There were complete field hospitals with their personnel and equipment, a field post-office with clerks distributing the mail, and even field kitchens. 1998 Soldiers (Electronic ed.) July 8 There were no big PXs selling envelopes or postcards, and field post offices were not operating. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1797 |
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