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noun (plural posts) |
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1. U.K. mail letters and parcels: letters and parcels that have been sent or are to be sent through the postal system
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2. U.K. postal service: the official system for collecting, conveying, and delivering letters and parcels to another place
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3. history station on route: formerly, a station along a route where mounted messengers or couriers rested and changed horses
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4. history mail deliverer: formerly, a rider who covered the distance from one post to the next in a delivery system
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verb (past and past participle post·ed, present participle post·ing, 3rd person present singular posts) |
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1. transitive verb U.K. mail send letter or parcel: to send a letter or parcel through the postal system.
See also mail1v (sense 1)
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2. transitive and intransitive verb send message electronically: to place or send a message on a newsgroup or bulletin board on the Internet or some other electronic network
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3. transitive verb online update database: to update a database record by entering or transferring information
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4. intransitive verb riding keep rhythm with horse: to bob up and down in the saddle in time with a horse's trot
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5. intransitive verb history travel by post: to travel using relays of horses
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6. intransitive verb travel fast: to travel at speed
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archaic
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7. transitive verb accounting write something in ledger: to enter a transaction in a ledger
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adverb |
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quickly: quickly
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archaic
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| [Early 16th century. Via French, "relay station" < Latin posita, form of past participle of ponere "place"] |
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keep somebody posted to keep somebody informed by supplying new information regularly
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