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post(3)(dictionary)
post(11)(dictionary)
POST(finance)
post-dam(dictionary)
Post(money)
post-op(dictionary)
post(8)(dictionary)
Post, the(dictionary)
Post-it(dictionary)

post(10) (iou)



post verb2. M16.
[from POST noun2 or French poster.]
I. verb intrans.
Travel with relays of horses (orig. as a messenger or carrier of letters). obsolete exc. Hist. M16.
Ride, run, or travel with speed or haste; make haste, hurry. arch. M16.
fig.: Pope He wastes away Old age untimely posting ere his day.
Horsemanship. Rise and fall in the saddle (like a post-boy) when riding at trot. L19.
II. verb trans.
Foll. by over, off: hand over or transfer (a duty, responsibility, etc.) to another; shift, delegate; pass off; also, put off, postpone, defer, delay. M16-M17.
Cause to travel speedily; dispatch in haste; hurry (a person). L16-E19.
G. Farquhar My father..posts me away to travel.
Carry in the manner of an express messenger; convey swiftly. Only in 17.
Shakespeare Cymbeline The swiftest harts have posted you by land.
a. Send by special messenger. E17-E18.
b. Send through the post office; put into a post office or postbox for transmission by the post. M19.
J. Rhys I will post the short stories to you tomorrow. V. Brome He wrote a letter but did not post it.
Bookkeeping. Transfer (an entry) from an auxiliary book to a more formal one (esp. from a daybook to a journal or to a ledger) or from one account to another; enter (an item) in proper form in a book. E17.
b. Complete (a ledger etc.) by entering all appropriate items; keep (a record) up to date thus. Usu. foll. by up. E18.
fig. (from sense 8b). Supply with full information or the latest news on a subject; inform. Freq. in keep a person posted, keep oneself posted. Orig. usu. foll. by up. colloq. (orig. US). M19.
J. D. Carr Keep me posted..Let me know everything. C. Chaplin He wrote..regularly, and kept me posted about Mother. T. Allbeury We want you to..post us on troop movements.
Computing. Send or link (an item of data) to a particular location in a memory etc. (usu. foll. by to). Also, record the occurrence of a specified event. M20.