post office

US pronunciation

American soundpost office

postoffice

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Final e often stays silent

post - office -> post office

Myanmar meaning

(n) စာတိုက်။ စာတိုက်ဌာန။

Full entry

post¹ /pǝƱst/ n

၁။ [C] တိုင်။ a rusty old post ❍ Tie the tennis net to the posts. ❍ boundary posts (ie marking a boundary). See also GATEPOST, GOALPOST, LAMPPOST, SIGNPOST
၂။ [sing] တာလွှတ်ရာ။ (ပန်းဝင်ရာ) ပန်းတိုင်။ the starting/ finishing/ winning post.
၃။ [C usu sing ] (infml ) = GOALPOST: The ball hit/ grazed the post.
v ~ sth (up) (ကြော်ငြာ စသည်) ကပ်သည်။ Have the exam results been posted yet? ❍ Pictures of the three suspects have been posted up all over the shopping centre. See also POSTER (က)
❏ first past the post [IDM ] ကျန်ပြိုင်ဖက်အားလုံးရသော မဲအရေအတွက်ထက်ဖြစ်စေ၊ စုစုပေါင်း မဲအရေအတွက်၏ ထက်ဝက် ထက်ဖြစ်စေ ပိုသော မဲအရေအတွက်မရသော်လည်း မဲအများဆုံး ရသူ အဖြစ်ဖြင့် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲ၌ အနိုင်ရခြင်း။

post² /pǝƱst/ n

၁။ အလုပ်။ ရာထူး။ fill a post ❍ several vacant teaching posts ❍ She was appointed to the post of general manager. ❍ He will take up his post in July. ❍ She was offered a Cabinet post in the new government.
၂။ တာဝန်ကျရာ။ a Customs post ❍ He was rushed to the first aid post. ❍ The guards were ordered not to leave their posts. See also LAST POST, STAGING POST, TRADING POST
v
၁။ ~ sb (to sth) (တာဝန်) ပေးသည်။ (အလုပ်) ခန့်သည်။ post sb abroad ❍ After several years in London, he was posted to the embassy in Moscow.
၂။ ~ sb (at/ on sth) နေရာချထားသည်။ တာဝန်ချသည်။ We posted sentries (at the gates).
❏ posting /-Çŋ/ n (esp Brit ) ပြောင်းရွှေ့ခန့်ထား သည့်ရာထူး။ အလုပ်တာဝန်ကျရာနေရာ။ offer sb a three month posting in Cyprus ❍ He expects that his next posting will be (to) Paris.

post³ /pǝƱst/ (also esp US mail ) n

(က) [U] စာ၊ ချောထုပ်၊ ပါဆယ် စသည်။ There was a lot of post this morning. ❍ He's dealing with his post at the moment.
(ခ) [U] ချောပို့။ စာတိုက်။ send sth by post ❍ I'll put/ get it in the post to you first thing in the morning. ❍ It should get there next day if you send it by first class post.
(ဂ) [C] ပုံမှန်စာသိမ်း ချိန်၊ စာပို့ချိန်။ catch/ miss (ie be in time/ too late for) the last post ❍ Has the post arrived yet? ❍ The parcel came in this morning's post. ❍ a post van.
v (က) စာထည့်သည်။ Could you post this letter for me? ❍ obtain a certificate of posting.
(ခ) ~ sth (to sb) စာတိုက်မှပို့သည်။ They will post me the tickets/ post the tickets to me as soon as they get my cheque.
❏ keep sb posted [IDM ] အသိပေးသည်။ They promised to keep him posted about the sales of his book.
❏ post- free adv, adj စာပို့ခအငြိမ်း။ The book will be delivered post-free.
❏ post office n
၁။ [C] စာတိုက်။ queuing up for her pension at a post office counter.
၂။ the Post Office [sing] စာတိုက်ဌာန။
❏ post- office box (also PO box ) n စာတိုက်သေတ္တာ။
❏ post-paid adj, adv တံဆိပ်တော်ခွန် ဆောင်ပြီး။

post- pref (with ns, vs and adjs )

လွန်။ နှောင်း။ a postgraduate ❍ postdate ❍ a post-Impressionist ❍ the post-1945 period. Compare ANTE-, PRE-

More examples

There was no post for you today.
What time does the next post go?
[catch/miss the post] : I just caught the last post.
[first/second post] : The letter I was waiting for wasn’t in the first post.
I never send anything valuable through the post.
Never believe anyone who tells you ‘The cheque is in the post’!
His first shot hit the post.
The winning post
My father has held full-time teaching posts at several universities.
The Prime Minister appointed her to the post of ambassador.
[take up a post] : She took up her post as the new director last April.
[fill a post] : The company has now decided to fill this post on a permanent basis.
Thank you for this brilliant post!
[post about] : I wrote a blog post about this yesterday.

Synonyms

position, placement, job, station, situation, place, place of duty, PO, acquaint, advertise, advise, airmail, announce, appointment, apprive, assign, assignment, beat, berth, billet, boundary marker, brief, clue, collection, column, declare, delivery, dispatch, display, doorpost, employment, establish, fill in, forward, inform, leg, locate, locus, lookout, mail, mail service, marker, mast, newel, notify, office, pale, palisade, panel, pedestal, picket, pile, pillar, pole, post office, postal, postal service, prop, publicize, publish, put, put up, put wise to, rail, report, send, set, shaft, situate, stake, standard, stilt, stock, stud, support, tell, upright, upright support, warn, whereabouts, wise up, workplace

Antonyms

conceal, displace, hide, receive, remove, unemployment, withhold