postnoun
uk/pəʊst/us/poʊst/post noun (LETTERS)
A2 [ U ] mainly UK US usually mail letters, etc. that are delivered to homes or places of work:
A2 [ U ] mainly UK US usually mail the public system that exists for the collecting and delivering of letters:
[ S ] UK the time during the day when letters, etc. are collected or delivered:
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- Many thanks for your lovely long letter which arrived in this morning's post.
- The post comes twice daily.
- The package had been badly crushed in the post.
- Every Christmas thousands of people are drafted in to help with the post.
- The letter must have gone astray in the post.
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Communications - the postal system
- certified mail
- consign
- delivery
- direct mail
- express
- letterbox
- mail slot
- mailbag
- mass mailing
- p. and p.
- pillar box
- pin code
- postmaster
- shipping and handling
- snail mail
- stamp
- surface mail
- window
- zip code
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post noun (JOB)
B2 [ C ] a job in a company or organization:
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- She rose to the exalted post of Foreign Secretary after only three years in the government.
- I'm sorry, the post has already been filled.
- She has been removed from her post as managing director.
- Without a doubt, she's the strongest candidate we've interviewed for the post.
- Chief Inspector of Schools is a very challenging and high-profile post.
post noun (POLE)
[ C ] a vertical stick or pole stuck into the ground, usually to support something or show a position
[ C ] used as a combining form:
in the sport of horse racing, the place where the race finishes or, less often, the place from which the race starts
in sports such as football, a goalpost (= either of two vertical posts showing the area in which the ball is kicked to score points)
More examples
- He caught the rope and knotted it around a post.
- a fence post
- The gate won't stay open, so we'll have to secure it to that post.
- The first stage of building the fence is sinking the posts into the ground.
- They moved the goal posts wider apart.
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Poles, rods, shafts and sticks
- bar
- baton
- billy club
- boathook
- bollard
- broomstick
- cane
- lightning conductor
- maypole
- pointer
- rod
- rung
- shaft
- shooting stick
- stake
- telephone pole
- totem pole
- truncheon
- utility pole
- waddy
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post noun (PLACE)
[ C ] the particular place where someone works, especially where a soldier is told to be for military duty, usually as a guard:
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Places and locations
- a place for everything and everything in its place idiom
- action
- core
- direction
- ground zero
- heartland
- location
- lot
- oxygen bar
- place
- point
- scene
- seat
- set
- setting
- situation
- spot
- stronghold
- the holy of holies
- venue
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post noun (MESSAGE)
internet & telecoms something such as a message or picture that you publish on a website or using social media:
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Internet terminology
- .co.uk
- all-you-can-eat
- API
- app
- banner
- BBS
- bitcoin
- bounce
- e-commerce
- firewall
- instant messaging
- ISP
- JPEG
- MySpace
- troll
- unlike
- vlog
- VOD
- Web 2.0
- web-enabled
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postverb
uk/pəʊst/us/poʊst/post verb (LETTERS)
A2 UK US mail [ T ] to send a letter or parcel by post:
UK [ T ] to put an object through a letterbox (= special opening in a door):
More examples
- She gave me her assurance that she would post the cheque immediately.
- Please remind me to post this letter when we're out - I keep forgetting.
- I had posted the card two months previously.
- My husband generally posts our letters on his way to work.
- I posted the parcel over a week ago - it should have reached you by now.
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Delivering and despatching
- air drop
- air-dash
- airlift
- consign
- containerize
- despatch
- drop
- enclose
- fire sth off
- forward
- get sth in
- reroute
- route
- send
- send sth in
- send sth off
- ship
- shipping
- trot
- trot sb out
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post verb (PLACE)
C2 [ T ] to send someone to a particular place to work:
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Changing homes & moving
- asylum seeker
- diaspora
- diaspora
- economic migrant
- emigrate
- immigration
- migrant
- migrate
- move on
- move out
- mover
- moving
- removalist
- remover
- resettle
- residence
- settle
- shelter
- stake
- stick
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post verb (MESSAGE)
[ T ] to stick or pin a notice on a wall in order to make it publicly known:
B1 [ I or T ] internet & telecoms to publish something such as a message or picture on a website or using social media:
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Advertising and marketing
- ad
- ad agency
- adman
- advert
- advertise
- CRM
- cross-promote
- cross-selling
- customer relationship management
- flier
- flyer
- mailshot
- obo
- ono
- overvalue
- own brand
- patter
- personal ad
- USP
- want ad
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post verb (PAY)
US to pay money, especially so that a person who has been accused of committing a crime can be free until their trial:
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Paying money
- ante
- charge
- chargeable
- congestion charge
- demurrage
- disburse
- discharge
- disgorge
- fork
- fork out sth
- overspend
- pay up
- pick up the bill/tab idiom
- put sth down 1
- repayable
- self-financing
- sink
- spring
- tip
- worth
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post verb (RESULTS)
to announce a company's financial results:
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Announcing, informing & stating
- acquaint sb/yourself with sth
- advise
- advisement
- annunciation
- come out
- commit
- confront
- declare
- fyi
- give sb a heads up idiom
- head
- let sb know idiom
- official
- pronouncement
- put
- put sth out 1
- spread the word idiom
- tell
- unannounced
- word
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