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单词 post
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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:

I'd been away for a few days so I had a lot of post waiting for me.
My secretary usually opens my post, unless it's marked "private".
Has the post come/arrived yet?

A2 [ U ] mainly UK US usually mail the public system that exists for the collecting and delivering of letters:

My letter must have got lost in the post.
If you don't want to take it there, you can just send it by post.

[ S ] UK the time during the day when letters, etc. are collected or delivered:

I missed the post this morning.
Did you manage to catch the post?

More examples

  • 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
  • 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:

Teaching posts are advertised in Tuesday's edition of the paper.
She's held the post for 13 years.
They have several vacant posts.
Compare
posting

More examples

  • 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:

a lamppost
a signpost
the post

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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Horse racing
Football/soccer
General terms used in ball sports

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:

The soldier was disciplined for deserting his post.
I was ordered to remain at my post until the last customer had left.

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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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Places involved in military activity

post noun (MESSAGE)

internet & telecoms something such as a message or picture that you publish on a website or using social media:

Lots of people have commented on my post.
You can change your privacy settings so that only certain people can see your posts.

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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:

Did you remember to post my letter?
I must post that parcel (off) or she won't get it in time for her birthday.
[ + two objects ] Could you post me the details/post the details to me?

UK [ T ] to put an object through a letterbox (= special opening in a door):

Just post the key through the door after you've locked it.

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:

He's been posted to Pakistan for six months.
Guards were posted at all the doors.

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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:

Company announcements are usually posted (up) on the noticeboard.

B1 [ I or T ] internet & telecoms to publish something such as a message or picture on a website or using social media:

I never post anything on the Internet that I wouldn't want my boss to see.
She hardly ever posts on Facebook.
Somebody's been posting obscene messages in this chat room.

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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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Internet terminology

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:

She has agreed to post bail for her brother.

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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:

The oil company posted profits of $25.1 billion.

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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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post-prefix

uk/pəʊst-/us/poʊst-/

after or later than:

postgraduate
postoperative
He took a post-lunch nap.

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Before, after and already

  • advance
  • afore
  • afterwards
  • already
  • ante
  • as it is idiom
  • following
  • formerly
  • front
  • gone
  • heretofore
  • immediate
  • in advance idiom
  • in advance of sth/sb idiom
  • later
  • prologue
  • shortly
  • subsequent
  • successor
  • thereafter

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post-prefix

ukus

after or later than:

Post-tax profits are £931,000 against £971,000 the previous year.
The Tokyo market made a strong post-crash recovery.
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pre-

postnoun

uk/pəʊst/us

[ U ] mainly UK also mail COMMUNICATIONS letters and packages that are sent to homes or places of work:

to check/collect the post
to get/receive post
deliver post Did the postman deliver any post for me?
the post arrives/comes Has the post come yet?
answer/open/read post I've got a lot of post to open.

COMMUNICATIONS the public system for sending letters and packages from place to place:

first-/second-class post
be/put sth in the post The cheque is in the post, and you should receive it tomorrow.
through the post Given that most people would not wish to send their original passport through the post, they will have to get a certified copy.
The letter got lost in the post.
Dividends may be sent by post, held for collection, or paid in some other way.
arrive/come/be delivered by post Hard copy products, such as a CD or newsletter, should arrive by post within days.
See also
registered post

[ S or U ] UK COMMUNICATIONS the time during the day when letters and packages are collected, or arrive at homes and places of work:

the first/last post
catch/meet/miss the post The letter needed to be sent today, but I missed the last post.
by return (of) post

COMMUNICATIONS if you reply to a letter by return of post, you reply by sending a letter back almost immediately:

Please send the invoice back by return of post.

[ C ] a job in a company or organization, especially an important one that pays well:

accept/hold/remain in a post He has held the post of commercial director since 2002.
apply for/be appointed to/take up a post She has applied for the vacant manager's post.
advertise/fill a post Almost a third of employers said they had not received one application for a post they had advertised.
a high-level/key/senior post
a full-time/part-time post
a permanent/temporary post
a government/teaching post
resign (from)/leave a post She was forced to resign from her £300,000-a-year post after the scandal.
be removed/step down from a post

[ C ] also posting IT a message or information that is put on a website, or sent to an internet discussion group for all the members to read:

The site is seeing 10,000 posts per hour from its 50,000 members all over the world.
a blog post

postverb [ T ]

uk/pəʊst/us

UK US mail COMMUNICATIONS to send a letter or package to someone by mail:

post sth to sb/post sb sth I'll post the details to you.
post (off) sth Have you posted off your application form?

UK US mail COMMUNICATIONS to put a letter or package into a postbox (= official public box for mail) so that it can be sent:

Could you post this letter for me please?

to announce a company’s sales, financial results, etc.:

post gains/losses/profits The oil company posted profits of $25.1 billion.
post an improvement/a rise/a decline They posted a 16% rise in sales.

to send someone to a particular place to work for a period of time:

be posted to sth He has been posted to Pakistan for six months.

to put a notice in a public place in order to make something known to other people:

be posted (up) on sth Company announcements are usually posted on the bulletin board.
The rules include requiring businesses to post signs stating that smoking is not allowed.

IT to put a message or information on a website for other people to read:

The State Department posted a notice on its website saying that applicants may wait 10 weeks for passports.
post sth on a website/online/on the internet The reports were written up and posted on the internet.
post bail

LAW to pay money so that a person who has been accused of committing a crime can be free until their trial:

He is now free after posting $20,000 bail.
keep sb posted

to continue giving someone the most recent information about a situation that involves them:

I'll keep you posted on any new developments with the deal.
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