I. LETTERS, PARCELS, AND INFORMATION
(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
The ~ is the public service or system by which letters and packages are collected and delivered. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use mail )
You’ll receive your book through the ~...
The winner will be notified by ~...
The cheque is in the ~.
N-SING: the N, also by N
2.
You can use ~ to refer to letters and packages that are delivered to you. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use mail )
He flipped through the ~ without opening any of it...
There has been no ~ in three weeks.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
Post is used to refer to an occasion when letters or packages are delivered. For example, first ~ on a particular day is the first time that things are delivered. (mainly BRIT)
Entries must arrive by first ~ next Wednesday...
= delivery
N-UNCOUNT: supp N
4.
If you ~ a letter or package, you send it to someone by putting it in a ~ box or by taking it to a ~ office. (mainly BRIT)
If I write a letter, would you ~ it for me?...
I’m ~ing you a cheque tonight...
I ~ed a letter to Stanley saying I was an old Army friend.
VERB: V n, V n n, V n to n
•
Post off means the same as ~ . (in AM, usually use mail )
He’d left me to pack up the mail and ~ it off...
All you do is complete and ~ off a form.
PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron)
5.
If you ~ notices, signs, or other pieces of information somewhere, you fix them to a wall or board so that everyone can see them.
Officials began ~ing warning notices...
She has ~ed photographs on bulletin boards.
VERB: V n, V n prep/adv
•
Post up means the same as ~ .
He has ~ed a sign up that says ‘No Fishing’...
We ~ up a set of rules for the house.
PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron), also V n P prep/adv
6.
If you ~ information on the Internet, you make the information available to other people on the Internet. (COMPUTING)
A consultation paper has been ~ed on the Internet inviting input from Net users.
VERB: be V-ed
7.
If you keep someone ~ed, you keep giving them the latest information about a situation that they are interested in.
Keep me ~ed on your progress.
PHRASE: keep inflects, oft PHR on/with n
II. JOBS AND PLACES
(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ in a company or organization is a job or official position in it, usually one that involves responsibility. (FORMAL)
She had earlier resigned her ~ as President Menem’s assistant...
Sir Peter has held several senior military ~s.
= position
N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft N of/as n
2.
If you are ~ed somewhere, you are sent there by the organization that you work for and usually work there for several years.
It is normal to spend two or three years working in this country before being ~ed overseas.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed prep/adv
3.
You can use ~ to refer to the place where a soldier, guard, or other person has been told to remain and to do his or her job.
Quick men, back to your ~!
N-COUNT: usu poss N
4.
If a soldier, guard, or other person is ~ed somewhere, they are told to stand there, in order to supervise an activity or guard a place.
Police have now been ~ed outside all temples...
British Rail had to ~ a signalman at the entrance to the tunnel...
We have guards ~ed near the windows.
VERB: be V-ed prep/adv, V n prep/adv, V-ed, also be V-ed
5.
see also ~ing , staging ~
III. POLES
(~s)
Please look at category 4 to see if the expression you are looking for is shown under another headword.
1.
A ~ is a strong upright pole made of wood or metal that is fixed into the ground.
You have to get eight wooden ~s, and drive them into the ground...
N-COUNT
2.
A ~ is the same as a goal~ .
Wimbledon were unlucky not to win after hitting the ~ twice.
N-COUNT
3.
On a horse-racing track, the ~ is a pole which marks the finishing point.
N-SING: the N
4.
to pip someone at the ~: see pip
see also first-past-the-~