post

1. (transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.Examples: "Post no bills."; "Martin Luther posted his ninety five theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenburg."transitive

2. (transitive, by extension) To announce publicly; to publish.Examples: "The company posted record profits this quarter."; "Although New York City preceded many large cities in posting a drop in homicides and other violent offenses in the early 1990s, by the end of the decade it also seemed to be at the forefront of a possible cyclical rebound."; "He’s saying if you can’t win, quitting is okay? What would the PGA say if golfers quit the tournament after posting a high score?"broadlytransitive

3. (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.Examples: "You have not poſted your Books theſe Ten years; hovv is it poſſible for a Man of Buſineſs to keep his Affairs even in the VVorld at this rate?"

4. (transitive) To deposit a payment that may or may not be returned.Examples: "Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand."transitive

5. (transitive) To deposit a payment that may or may not be returned.Examples: "to post bail"; "For example, if the police or court sets bail at $1,000, and a suspect owns a fancy watch worth at least that amount, the defendant may be able to use the watch to post bail."; "Because wealthy defendants are better positioned to post bail or provide collateral, the American bail system has been criticized as being biased against the poor."transitive

1. (obsolete) Each of a series of men stationed at specific places along a postroad, with responsibility for relaying letters and dispatches of the monarch (and later others) along the route.obsolete

2. (dated) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travellers on some recognized route.Examples: "a stage or railway post"dated

3. (now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.Examples: "I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, Receiving them from such a worthless post."; "in certain ſet places there be alwaies fresh Poſts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the others"; "information was filtered through the counting-houses and warehouses of Antwerp; posts galloped along the roads of the Low Countries, while dispatches streamed through Calais, and were passed off the merchant galleys arriving in London from the Flanders ports."historical

4. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.Examples: "sent via post; parcel post"; "I take it too as an opportunity of sending you the fair copy of the poem on Dullness, which was not then finished, and which I should not care to hazard by the common post."AustraliaNew-ZealandUK

5. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address.Examples: "Royal Mail worker Evette Chapman gathered a team of 12 colleagues to deliver post in fancy dress and raise money for a nurses' charity and patients in Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton."AustraliaNew-ZealandUK

6. (American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.Examples: "Two of the receivers ran post patterns."

1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.Examples: "Mail items posted before 7.00pm within the Central Business District and before 5.00pm outside the Central Business District will be delivered the next working day."AustraliaNew-ZealandUK

2. (horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting.

3. (Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.Examples: "I couldn't figure it out, so I posted a question on the mailing list."Internet

1. (film, informal) Post-production.Examples: "we'll fix it in post"; "Admittedly many of these can be fixed in post, but this may limit your flexibility in other areas."informaluncountable

1. (medicine, informal) A post mortem (an investigation of a body's cause of death).Examples: "I gotta run. Yes, send the kid to the morgue. We'll do a post on Monday."informal