The Post Office

Definition

post 1 /pǝƱst/ n ၁။ [C] တိုင္။ 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] တာလႊတ္ရာ။ (ပန္းဝင္ရာ) ပန္းတိုင္။ the starting/ finishing/ winning post. ၃။ [C usu sing ] ( infml ) = GOALPOST: The ball hit/ grazed the post. v ~ sth (up) (ေၾကာ္ျငာ စသည္) ကပ္သည္။ 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 ] က်န္ၿပိဳင္ဖက္အားလံုးရေသာ မဲအေရအတြက္ထက္ျဖစ္ေစ၊ စုစုေပါင္း မဲအေရအတြက္၏ ထက္ဝက္ ထက္ျဖစ္ေစ ပိုေသာ မဲအေရအတြက္မရေသာ္လည္း မဲအမ်ားဆံုး ရသူ အျဖစ္ျဖင့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၌ အႏိုင္ရျခင္း။ post 2 /pǝƱst/ n ၁။ အလုပ္။ 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။ တာဝန္က်ရာ။ 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) (တာဝန္) ေပးသည္။ (အလုပ္) ခန္႔သည္။ post sb abroad ❍ After several years in London, he was posted to the embassy in Moscow. ၂။ ~ sb (at/ on sth) ေနရာခ်ထားသည္။ တာဝန္ခ်သည္။ We posted sentries (at the gates). ❏ posting /-Çŋ/ n ( esp Brit ) ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕ခန္႔ထား သည့္ရာထူး။ အလုပ္တာဝန္က်ရာေနရာ။ offer sb a three month posting in Cyprus ❍ He expects that his next posting will be (to) Paris. post 3 /pǝƱst/ (also esp US mail ) n (က) [U] စာ၊ ေခ်ာထုပ္၊ ပါဆယ္ စသည္။ There was a lot of post this morning. ❍ He's dealing with his post at the moment. (ခ) [U] ေခ်ာပို႔။ စာတိုက္။ 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] ပံုမွန္စာသိမ္း ခ်ိန္၊ စာပို႔ခ်ိန္။ 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) စာထည့္သည္။ Could you post this letter for me? ❍ obtain a certificate of posting. (ခ) ~ sth (to sb) စာတိုက္မွပို႔သည္။ They will post me the tickets/ post the tickets to me as soon as they get my cheque. ❏ keep sb posted [ IDM ] အသိေပးသည္။ They promised to keep him posted about the sales of his book. ❏ post- free adv, adj စာပို႔ခအၿငိမ္း။ The book will be delivered post-free. ❏ post office n ၁။ [C] စာတိုက္။ queuing up for her pension at a post office counter. ၂။ the Post Office [sing] စာတိုက္ဌာန။ ❏ post- office box (also PO box ) n စာတိုက္ေသတၱာ။ ❏ post-paid adj, adv တံဆိပ္ေတာ္ခြန္ ေဆာင္ၿပီး။ post- pref (with ns, vs and adjs ) လြန္။ ေႏွာင္း။ a postgraduate ❍ postdate ❍ a post-Impressionist ❍ the post-1945 period. Compare ANTE-, PRE-

Examples

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