post·mas·ter

(pōst′măs′tər)

A person who is in charge of the operations of a post office.

post′mas′ter·ship′ n.

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postmaster

(ˈpəʊstˌmɑːstə)

1. an official in charge of a local post office. Also (feminine): postmistress

2. the person responsible for managing the electronic mail at a site

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post•mas•ter

(ˈpoʊstˌmæs tər, -ˌmɑ stər)

n.

1. the official in charge of a post office.

2. (formerly) the master of a station that furnished post horses to travelers.

[1505–15]

post′mas`ter•ship`, n.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

postmaster - the person in charge of a post office

master - directs the work of others

postmistress - a woman postmaster

Translations

مُدير مَكتَب البَريد

poštmistr

postmester

Postvorsteher

postamester

póstmeistari

postmester

poštmajster

posta müdürü

邮政局长

postmaster

[ˈpəʊstˌmɑːstəʳ]

A. N → administrador m de correos

B. CPD postmaster general N (Brit) → director m general de correos

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

postmaster

[ˈpəʊstmɑːstə^r] n → receveur m des postesPostmaster General n → ministre m des Postes et Télécommunications

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

postmaster

[ˈpəʊstˌmɑːstəʳ] n → direttore m di un ufficio postale

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

post²

(pəust) noun

(the system of collecting, transporting and delivering) letters, parcels etc. I sent the book by post; Has the post arrived yet?; Is there any post for me?

verb

to send (a letter etc) by post. He posted the parcel yesterday.

ˈpostage (-tidʒ) noun

(the money paid for) the sending of a letter etc by post. The postage was $1.20.

ˈpostal adjective

of, or concerning, the system of sending letters etc. the postal service.

postage stamp

a small printed label fixed to a letter, parcel etc to show that postage has been paid.

postal order

a printed document bought at a post office, which can be exchanged at another post office for the amount of money paid for it.

postbox (ˈpəusboks) noun

(also ˈletterbox, ~ˈmailbox, ~pillar box) a box into which letters etc are put to be collected (and sent to their destination).

postcard (ˈpəuskaːd) noun

a card on which a message may be sent by post, often with a picture on one side (a picture postcard). She sent me a postcard of the Taj Mahal when she was in India.

postcode (ˈpəuskoud) noun

(American zip code) a set of letters and numbers added to the address on a letter to make delivery easier.

ˌpost-ˈfree adjective, adverb

without charge for sending by post. You can send it post-free.

ˌpost(-)ˈhaste adverb

very quickly. He travelled post(-)haste to London.

postman (ˈpəusmən) noun

(American ˈmailman) a person whose job is to (collect and) deliver letters etc. Has the postman been this morning yet?

postmark (ˈpəusmaːk) noun

a mark put on a letter at a post office, showing the date and place of posting, and cancelling the postage stamp. The postmark read `Beirut'.

postmaster (ˈpəusmaːstə) – feminine postmistress (ˈpəusmistris) – noun

the manager of a post office.

post office

an office for receiving and dispatching letters, parcels etc. Where is the nearest post office?

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At the Torzhok post station, either there were no horses or the postmaster would not supply them.

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"Good-morning," said the captain, cheerfully addressing the postmaster. "I am Mr.

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The prelate asked himself by what infernal machination his enemies had succeeded in depriving him of the means of going further, - he who never recognized chance as a deity, who found a cause for every accident, preferred believing that the refusal of the postmaster, at such an hour, in such a country, was the consequence of an order emanating from above: an order given with a view of stopping short the king-maker in the midst of his flight.

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Bushy, the postmaster, with another neighbour who lived east of us, stopped in to get warm.

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"Stranger," the Peasant interrupted, "if you're going back there soon maybe you wouldn't mind using your influence to make me Postmaster at Smith's Corners."

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Larry has been going it rather harder than usual lately--if cousin Louisa won't mind my mentioning it--having rather a stiff affair with the postmaster's wife in their village, or some one of that sort; and whenever poor Gertrude Lefferts begins to suspect anything, and he's afraid of trouble, he gets up a fuss of this kind, to show how awfully moral he is, and talks at the top of his voice about the impertinence of inviting his wife to meet people he doesn't wish her to know.

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The postmaster's evidence was of importance in one respect: it suggested the motive which had brought the deceased to Zeeland.

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Obviously the first thing to do was to see the Grimpen postmaster and find whether the test telegram had really been placed in Barrymore's own hands.

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And I'll never be able to forgive the postmaster of Oakland.

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There was no English mail-coach until 1784; and when Benjamin Franklin was Postmaster General at Philadelphia, an answer by mail from Boston, when all went well, required not less than three weeks.

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The crowd filed up the aisles: the aged and needy postmaster, who had seen better days; the mayor and his wife -- for they had a mayor there, among other unnecessaries; the justice of the peace; the widow Douglass, fair, smart, and forty, a generous, good-hearted soul and well-to-do, her hill mansion the only palace in the town, and the most hospitable and much the most lavish in the matter of festivities that St.

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I gave good news of him for thirty years runnin', but aunt Achsy Tarbox had a ferretin' cousin that went out to Tombstone for her health, and she wrote to a postmaster, or to some kind of a town authority, and found Jim and wrote back aunt Achsy all about him and just how unfortunate he'd been.

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