Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The office of a postmaster; also, the time during which a postmaster holds office.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The office of postmaster.
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- noun The office or position of
postmaster .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Did I tell you that Cawdel has lost his postmastership, and that we past at the Green Man over the way?
Letter 297 2009
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She tried to have him appointed to the postmastership, which, since all the work was done by assistants, was the one sinecure in town, the one reward for political purity.
Main Street 2004
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But it proved that Mr. Bert Tybee, the former bartender, desired the postmastership.
Main Street 2004
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One beggar is too proud to beg for pennies, but will beg for an introduction into society; another does not care for society, but he wants a postmastership; another will inveigle a lawyer into conversation and then sponge on him for free advice.
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When President Jefferson did not give Callender a postmastership after the election of 1800, he switched sides and became a Federalist, with consequences that still resonate—for it was Callender who first published the story of Sally Hemings.
Alexander Hamilton, American Richard Brookhiser 1999
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When President Jefferson did not give Callender a postmastership after the election of 1800, he switched sides and became a Federalist, with consequences that still resonate—for it was Callender who first published the story of Sally Hemings.
Alexander Hamilton, American Richard Brookhiser 1999
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The postmastership had given him ample opportunity to work on his poems, however, and afterward Stone subsidized the private printing of a collection of them, his first published work, called The Marble Faun.
The Private World of William Faulkner Coughlan, Robert, 1914- 1953
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That is why I made the recommendation for a change in the postmastership at Summit.
The Facts of Reconstruction John R. Lynch
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During the postmastership of Mr. Blood, and since that time, the office has been kept at the only store in the place.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884 Various
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The name of the post-office was changed by the department at Washington, from South Groton to Groton Junction, on March 1, 1862; and subsequently this was changed to Ayer, on March 22, 1871, soon after the incorporation of the town, during the postmastership of Mr. Harlow.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884 Various
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