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 a post office
noun the administrator of an electronic mail system
noun UK A kind of scholar at Merton College, Oxford; portionist.
noun archaic One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travellers; 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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post + master
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Examples
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.
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.
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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