POST | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of post in English postnoun uk /pəʊst/ us /poʊst/

post noun (LETTERS)

Add to word list Add to word list 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.open someone’s post My secretary usually opens my post, unless it's marked "private".post come/arrive Has the post come/arrived yet? Synonyms correspondence (WRITING) mail (LETTERS/PACKAGES) A2 [ U ] mainly UK (US usually mail) the public system that exists for the collecting and delivering of letters: in the post My letter must have got lost in the post.by 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: miss the post I missed the post this morning.catch the post Did you manage to catch the post?

• 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.

Communications - the postal system

• addy
• BFPO
• care of idiom
• catch the post
• collection box
• consignee
• delivery
• dispatch
• first class
• Jiffy bag
• mailbox
• package
• parcel
• postbag
• poste restante
• postie
• reply-paid
• self-addressed
• sorting office
• 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.hold the post She's held the post for 13 years. They have several vacant posts. Synonyms appointment (JOB) job (EMPLOYMENT) position (RANK) situation old useCompare employment (WORK) posting work noun (ACTIVITY) a job

• jobShe got a job as a lab assistant.
• occupationPlease fill in your name, age, and occupation.
• postThere's a post for a lecturer open in my department.
• positionShe's applied for a part-time editing position.
• appointmentThere are going to be several new appointments in the department this year.
• careerShe's had a very successful career in marketing.

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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.

 in post UK doing a particular job in a company or organization: He has been in post since February 2015. See more

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: It was a photo finish at the post. Bloomer's Pride pulled ahead right before the post.   Bikemech/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages in sports such as football, a goalpost (= either of two vertical posts showing the area in which the ball is kicked to score points): The shot hit the post and bounced out of bounds. a rectangular area marked on a basketball court (= playing area) in front of the basket : He set up in the post and brought down a rebound. The post is often painted a different colour from the rest of the court. Synonym free-throw lane

• 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.

Poles, rods, shafts and sticks

• bar
• bargepole
• baton
• billy club
• boathook
• bollard
• crook
• lathi
• lathi-charge
• lightning conductor
• litter grabber
• litter pick
• mast
• shank
• spar
• staff
• staves
• telegraph pole
• telephone pole
• tent peg

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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: desert your post The soldier was disciplined for deserting his post. I was ordered to remain at my post until the last customer had left. Places and locations

• anatopism
• back row
• coign of vantage
• core
• crime scene
• deliver something to someone/somewhere
• location
• locational
• locationally
• loci
• locus
• placelessness
• resite
• retroperitoneal
• retroperitoneally
• scene
• second row
• setting
• spot
• station

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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. Information and messages

• advance notice
• advance warning
• advertisement
• aide-mémoire
• ammunition
• geotag
• glad tidings
• go up phrasal verb
• gory
• placard
• playbill
• primer
• propaganda
• prospectus
• sidelight
• subtlety
• the gory details idiom
• Wordle
• X, x
• Xs and Os idiom

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Internet terminology postverb uk /pəʊst/ us /poʊst/

post verb (LETTERS)

A2 [ T ] UK (US mail) to send a letter or parcel by post: Did you remember to post my letter?post something (off) 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? [ T ] UK to put an object through a letterbox (= special opening in a door): Just post the key through the door after you've locked it.

• 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.

Delivering and despatching

• air bridge
• air corridor
• air-dash
• box scheme
• by hand
• carriage
• courier
• dispatch
• freight
• funnel
• lunge
• mail
• misaddress
• misdirect
• misdirection
• send something off phrasal verb
• send something on phrasal verb
• send something out phrasal verb
• ship
• shipment

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post verb (PLACE)

C2 [ T ] to send someone to a particular place to work: be posted to He's been posted to Pakistan for six months.be posted at Guards were posted at all the doors. Changing homes & moving

• (furniture) remover phrase
• anti-immigrant
• anti-immigration
• asylum hotel
• asylum seeker
• closing
• emigrate
• emigration
• foreign-returned
• greener pastures idiom
• moving
• pasture
• pre-migration
• pull up stakes idiom
• rehome
• relocate
• shelter
• up sticks idiom
• upsize
• winter

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post verb (MESSAGE)

[ T ] to stick or pin a notice on a wall in order to make it publicly known: be posted (up) on 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: post something on something I never post anything on the Internet that I wouldn't want my boss to see.post on She hardly ever posts on Facebook. Somebody's been posting obscene messages in this chat room. Advertising and marketing

• ad
• ad agency
• adman
• adverse publicity
• advert
• customer relationship management
• demographics
• detoxify
• differentiator
• dogfooding
• o.n.o.
• obo
• off-brand
• on-brand
• opinion mining
• stunt
• superhype
• target population
• teaser
• telemarketing

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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: post bail She has agreed to post bail for her brother. Paying money

• 2FA
• 2SV
• ante
• ante up (something) phrasal verb
• bankroll
• blow through something phrasal verb
• burn a hole in someone's pocket idiom
• credit limit
• expend
• fund
• no expense is spared idiom
• outlay
• prepay
• prepayment
• prodigal
• pump something into something phrasal verb
• pump-priming
• spent
• subsidize
• treat

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post verb (RESULTS)

to announce a company's financial results: post a profit The oil company posted profits of $25.1 billion. Announcing, informing & stating

• acquaint someone/yourself with something phrasal verb
• annunciation
• apprise someone of something
• avowedly
• awaken someone to something phrasal verb
• bear
• misreporting
• notify
• pass on phrasal verb
• preach the gospel
• predicate
• profess
• promulgation
• propagation
• reported
• ring
• self-proclaimed
• smoke signal
• spread
• unannounced

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Phrasal verb

post up (someone) post-prefix uk /pəʊst-/ us /poʊst-/ after or later than: postgraduate postoperative He took a post-lunch nap. after something

• afterAfter the show we were invited back to the dressing room.
• followingThe years following the war were hard.
• subsequent toSubsequent to her appearance on TV she received many bookings.
• post-I’m doing post-doctoral research.
• nextWhat is the next step in your treatment?

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• afore
• afterwards
• already
• ante
• as it is idiom
• before
• heel
• in advance idiom
• in advance of something/someone idiom
• in the wake of something idiom
• just after
• next
• posterior
• previous
• prior
• priorly
• prologue
• quondam
• upstream
• wake

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post | American Dictionary

postnoun [ C ] us /poʊst/

post noun [C] (POLE)

Add to word list Add to word list a vertical pole stuck in the ground, usually to support something or to mark a position: Al leaned against a fence post.

post noun [C] (JOB)

a job, esp. one in which someone is performing an official duty: Novello was the first woman and first Hispanic to hold the post of surgeon general. postverb [ T ] us /poʊst/

post verb [T] (MAKE KNOWN)

to make information known to the public, or to put up signs on land or other property: Snow advisories were posted for Ohio and Pennsylvania. All over town, for-sale signs are posted in front of houses. To post something is also to put it on the Internet where others can see it: The earnings release also will be posted on the Company's website.

post verb [T] (PAY)

to pay money to a law court, as a formal promise that a person released from prison will return for trial: McLaughlin posted $3000 bail after his arrest. post-prefix us /poʊst/ after (a time or event): post-9/11 post-election (Definition of post from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

post | Business English

postnoun uk /pəʊst/ us Add to word list Add to word list [ U ]   COMMUNICATIONS   mainly UK ( also mail) letters and packages that are sent to homes or places of work: to check/collect the post to get/receive postdeliver 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 postbe/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 ]   COMMUNICATIONS   UK the time during the day when letters and packages are collected, or arrive at homes and places of work: the first/last postcatch/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 postresign (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 ]   IT   (also posting) 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 COMMUNICATIONS   UK ( US mail) 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? COMMUNICATIONS   UK ( US mail) 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. post-prefix uk us 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. Compare pre- (Definition of post from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of post

post Both posts were representing the interface between their respective organisations. From the Cambridge English Corpus First, we scored all parties as having a left-right position equal to its mean value over the entire post-war period. From the Cambridge English Corpus During the entire post-war period there are only five occasions (1950, 1951, 1955, 1964 and 1997) in which the parties leapfrog each other. From the Cambridge English Corpus The resulting file is then loaded into the graph-tool; this is the third stage of post-processing. From the Cambridge English Corpus This subdivision, however, is not relevant as far as the rough characterization of post-productivist criteria is concerned. From the Cambridge English Corpus Factors affecting post-dispersal seed survival in a tropical forest. From the Cambridge English Corpus For tapeworms follow up 2 or 3 months post-treatment was also performed. From the Cambridge English Corpus Translation activity of lysates prepared from post-fertilisation embryos was characterised. From the Cambridge English Corpus To do so, however, required a sophisticated, post-access, recognition process that could infer a target letter from a word representation. From the Cambridge English Corpus In any event, this shows that within the restraints described above, output of reasonable quality can be obtained which requires only light post-editing. From the Cambridge English Corpus The heightened baseline pain state reached a peak at 3 weeks post-injury, and diminished back to baseline by 1 year. From the Cambridge English Corpus The post-temporal fossa is small and directed anteromedially. From the Cambridge English Corpus We are thus, it is argued, entering a ' new ' or, somewhat paradoxically, 'post ' generational field. From the Cambridge English Corpus The rubric for the psallenda referred to is always 'psallentium post vesperas'. From the Cambridge English Corpus The evidence was rated as admissible at a post-conviction hearing and played a key role in having the accused released in 2003. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of post These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

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administrative postThen they talked about an administrative post. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0   cabinet postThe second variable is the value of a cabinet post. From the Cambridge English Corpus   consular postThe first paragraph was immunity from dues and taxes in relation to consular premises, including the residence of the career head of the consular post. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0   These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with post What is the pronunciation of post, post-?

Translations of post

in Chinese (Traditional) 信件, 郵件, 郵政，郵遞… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 信件, 邮件, 邮政，邮递… See more in Spanish correo, puesto, poste… See more in Portuguese correspondência, correio, posto… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Telugu in Tamil in Hindi in Bengali in Gujarati in Polish in Norwegian in Korean in Urdu in Italian टपाल, पोस्ट, टपाल खाते / पत्रं गोळा करणारे आणि वितरित करणारे सार्वजनिक खाते… See more 郵便物, 郵便, 仕事… See more posta, posta teşkilâtı, gönderiler… See more poteau [masculine], poste [masculine], poste [feminine]… See more correu, lloc, plaça… See more ఇళ్లకు, పని ప్రదేశాలకు అందజేసే ఉత్తరాలు మొదలైనవి, ఉత్తరాలు సేకరించటం… See more கடிதங்கள் போன்றவை. அவை வீடுகள் அல்லது வேலை இடங்களுக்கு வழங்கப்படுகிறது, கடிதங்களை சேகரித்து வழங்குவதற்கு இருக்கும் பொது அமைப்பு, ஒரு நிறுவனம் அல்லது அமைப்பில் வேலை… See more डाक, डाक तंत्र, प्रणाली… See more চিঠিপত্র ইত্যাদি, ডাক, চিঠি-পত্র সংগ্রহ করে নির্দিষ্ট ঠিকানায় পাঠানোর সরকারি বন্দোবস্ত… See more ટપાલ, ટપાલ ખાતું, વિભાગ… See more poczta, stanowisko, posada… See more stolpe [masculine], stilling [masculine], post [masculine]… See more 우편물, 우편, 직책… See more ڈاک, ڈاک کا نظام, عہدہ… See more posta, posto (di lavoro), palo… See more Need a translator?

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  • Noun 
    • post (LETTERS)
    • post (JOB)
    • in post
    • post (POLE)
    • the post
    • post (PLACE)
    • post (MESSAGE)
  • Verb 
    • post (LETTERS)
    • post (PLACE)
    • post (MESSAGE)
    • post (PAY)
    • post (RESULTS)
  Prefix
• American   
  • Noun 
    • post (POLE)
    • post (JOB)
  • Verb 
    • post (MAKE KNOWN)
    • post (PAY)
  Prefix
• Business   
  • Noun 
    • post
    • by return (of) post
  • Verb 
    • post
    • post bail
    • keep sb posted
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