post

1.the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand;

a soldier manned the entrance post

2.military installation at which a body of troops is stationed;

this military post provides an important source of income for the town nearby

3.a job in an organization;

he occupied a post in the treasury

4.an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position;

he set a row of posts in the ground and strung barbwire between them

5.any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered;

your mail is on the table

6.a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track);

a pair of posts marked the goal

7.the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office;

the mail handles billions of items every day

8.the delivery and collection of letters and packages;

it came by the first post

1.affix in a public place or for public notice;

post a warning

2.publicize with, or as if with, a poster;

I'll post the news on the bulletin board

3.assign to a post; put into a post;

The newspaper posted him in Timbuktu

4.assign to a station

5.display, as of records in sports games

6.enter on a public list

7.transfer (entries) from one account book to another

8.ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait

9.mark with a stake;

stake out the path

10. put up;

post a sign

11. cause to be directed or transmitted to another place;

send me your latest results

12. mark or expose as infamous;

She was branded a loose woman