Post

English Meaning

Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.

1. A long piece of wood or other material set upright into the ground to serve as a marker or support.
2. A similar vertical support or structure, as:
3. A support for a beam in the framework of a building.
4. A terminal of a battery.
5. Sports A goal post.
6. The starting point at a racetrack.
7. The slender barlike part of a stud earring that passes through the ear and is secured at the back with a small cap or clip.
8. An electronic message sent to a newsgroup: ignored several inflammatory posts.
9. To display (an announcement) in a place of public view.
10. To cover (a wall, for example) with posters.
11. To announce by or as if by posters: post banns.
12. Computer Science To send (an electronic message) to a newsgroup: posted a response to a question about car engines.
13. To put up signs on (property) warning against trespassing.
14. To denounce publicly: post a man as a thief.
15. To publish (a name) on a list.
16. Games To gain (points or a point) in a game or contest; score.
17. A military base.
18. The grounds and buildings of a military base.
19. A local organization of military veterans.
20. Either of two bugle calls in the British Army, sounded in the evening as a signal to retire to quarters.
21. An assigned position or station, as of a guard or sentry.
22. Basketball A position usually taken by the center, near either the basket or the foul line, serving as the focus of the team's offense.
23. A position of employment, especially an appointed public office.
24. A place to which someone is assigned for duty.
25. A trading post.
26. To assign to a specific position or station: post a sentry at the gate.
27. To appoint to a naval or military command.
28. To put forward; present: post bail.
29. A delivery of mail.
30. The mail delivered.
31. Chiefly British A governmental system for transporting and delivering the mail.
32. Chiefly British A post office.
33. Archaic One of a series of relay stations along a fixed route, furnishing fresh riders and horses for the delivery of mail on horseback.
34. Obsolete A rider on such a mail route; a courier.
35. To mail (a letter or package).
36. To send by mail in a system of relays on horseback.
37. To inform of the latest news: Keep us posted.
38. To transfer (an item) to a ledger in bookkeeping.
39. To make the necessary entries in (a ledger).
40. Computer Science To enter (a unit of information) on a record or into a section of storage.
41. To travel in stages or relays.
42. To travel with speed or in haste.
43. To bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait.
44. By mail.
45. With great speed; rapidly.
46. By post horse.