Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who is in charge of the operations of a post office.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The official who has charge of a post-station and provides post-horses, etc.
- noun The official who has the superintendence and general direction of a post-office, of the receipt and despatch of mails, etc.
- noun In Merton College, Oxford, a scholar who is supported on the foundation. Also called
portionist .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travelers; one who supplies post horses.
- noun One who has charge of a post office, and the distribution and forwarding of mails.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
head of apost office - noun the
administrator of anelectronic mail system - noun UK A kind of scholar at Merton College,
Oxford ;portionist . - noun archaic One who has charge of a
station for theaccommodation oftravellers ; one who supplies post horses.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the person in charge of a post office
Etymologies
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Examples
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As if this were not sinister enough, the letter goes on to threaten that if the sub-postmaster is deemed not to have lied to his or her customers in the appropriate and approved manner their compensation package would be at risk.
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As if this were not sinister enough, the letter goes on to threaten that if the sub-postmaster is deemed not to have lied to his or her customers in the appropriate and approved manner their compensation package would be at risk.
Archive 2007-07-29 2007
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The postmaster is a surly and incompetent manager.
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When I called the postmaster, he said that he wasn't sure I understood what the form was for he'd highlighted the bit about "sexually provocative material".
April 20th, 2003 vakkotaur 2003
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I soon observed that some one called the postmaster aside in a way which did not appear entirely devoid of mystery, and I acknowledge I felt some degree of alarm.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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I do not know that our village postmaster is exceptionally inattentive to his functions, but there is a careless, reckless, easy-go-lucky kind of way of doing business in this country which suits the hasty existence of the natives themselves, and the character and disposition of their Irish fellow-citizens, but which is gall and wormwood to English residents of my stamp.
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I soon observed that some one called the postmaster aside in a way which did not appear entirely devoid of mystery, and I acknowledge I felt some degree of alarm.
The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836
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I soon observed that some one called the postmaster aside in a way which did not appear entirely devoid of mystery, and I acknowledge I felt some degree of alarm.
Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801
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The check was lost in the mail for a couple of weeks, and I called the postmaster (it was a small town) to see if he could help track it.
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And you also think the president isn’t a citizen and that my postmaster is some how wrapped up in some absurd imaginary global climate hoax, so I mean who really cares?
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