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post(noun)/pəʊst/ /pəʊst/- the official system used for sending and delivering letters, packages, etc.
SEE ALSO parcel post
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/parcel-post - I'll send the original to you by post.
- I sent it by first-class post.
- I'll put the documents in the post to you tomorrow.
- My application got lost in the post.
- letters, packages, etc. that are sent and delivered
- There was a lot of post this morning.
- Have you opened your post yet?
- an occasion during the day when letters, etc. are collected or delivered
- to catch/miss the post
- The parcel came in this morning's post.
- The form should arrive in the post tomorrow.
- Payment should be sent by return of post (= immediately).
- Do you get a second post here?
Extra Examples- The book arrived in the morning post.
- If you hurry you'll just catch the post.
- a message sent to a discussion group on the internet; a piece of writing that forms part of a blog
SEE ALSO blog post
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/blog-post - I love reading her posts because I learn so much.
- They have deleted all my posts.
- She wrote a post about the experience on her blog.
- This post by Mark Brady is very interesting.
- The forum does not allow posts from non-members.
Extra Examples- To respond to your comments, please see my previous post.
- Here's a link to my recent posts.
- More info can be found in my first post on the subject.
- Do leave a comment on this post.
- Seth made a blog post titled ‘Rules of Engagement’.
- a job, especially an important one in a large organization
SYNONYM position
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/position_2 - an academic/a government post
- She took up a teaching post at Basle University.
- to resign (from)/quit/leave a post
- We will be creating 15 new posts next year.
- The company has been unable to fill the post.
- He has held the post for three years.
- She was offered a key post in the new government.
- He accepted the post of deputy prime minister.
Extra Examples- He was dismissed from his post when he was found to have accepted bribes.
- She applied for the new post of training officer.
- Three company directors have resigned (from) their posts.
- a Cabinet post
- an act of sending somebody to a particular place to do their job, especially for a limited period of time
- an overseas post
- The island is rated by diplomats as a hardship post (= one that people do not like to be sent to because it is not a very comfortable place to live).
- the place where somebody, especially a soldier, does their job
SEE ALSO command post
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/command-post - a police/military/customs post
- an observation post
- Three soldiers were shot dead at a border post.
- The guards were ordered not to leave their posts.
Extra Examples- The guard took up his post at the gate.
- The gun crew were at their posts.
- The sentries had deserted their posts.
- a piece of wood or metal that is set in the ground in a position pointing upwards, especially to support something or to mark a point
SEE ALSO bedpost
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/bedpost - She tied the dog to a post.
- corner posts (= that mark the corners of a sports field)
- The team’s ‘net’ was a piece of string tied to two posts.
- the place where a race finishes, especially in horse racing
SEE ALSO first-past-the-post
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/first-past-the-post - The first horse past the post wins the race.
- She led for most of the way before being pipped at the post (= beaten at the last moment).
- one of the two posts that form part of a goal
- The ball hit the post and bounced in.
- He steered a shot between the goalkeeper and the near post.
- to be forced to go from one person or situation to another without achieving anything
- Morale is very low. People have just had enough of being thrown from pillar to post.
- very deaf (= unable to hear anything)
Word Origin- noun senses 6 to 8 Old English, from Latin postis ‘doorpost’, later ‘rod, beam’, probably reinforced in Middle English by Old French post ‘pillar, beam’ and Middle Dutch, Middle Low German post ‘doorpost’. noun senses 1 to 3 early 16th cent. (referring to couriers who carried mail on horseback between fixed stages): from French poste, from Italian posta, from a contraction of Latin posita, feminine past participle of ponere ‘to place’. noun senses 4 to 5 mid 16th cent.: from French poste, from Italian posto, from a contraction of popular Latin positum, neuter past participle of ponere ‘to place’.
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