I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cabinet post (= a job in a cabinet )
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She accepted a cabinet post with the new Conservative government.
a teaching job/post
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I was soon to take up my first teaching post.
an observation post/point (= a place from where you can observe something )
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The peak of the mountain was a natural location for an observation post.
as deaf as a post informal (= completely deaf )
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He won’t hear you - he’s as deaf as a post.
be/get lost in the post BrE, be/get lost in the mail American English
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The parcel must have got lost in the post.
catch the post British English (= post letters in time for them to be collected that day )
command post
ex post facto law
fill a post/position/vacancy etc
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Women fill 35% of senior management positions.
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Thank you for your letter. Unfortunately, the vacancy has already been filled.
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The UK should find another weapon to fill the same role .
first-class stamp/mail/post etc
frontier town/area/post etc (= a town etc on a frontier )
hold the post/position/office etc (of sth)
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She was the first woman to hold the office of Australian state premier.
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The governor had held the post since 1989.
last post
observation post
parcel post
post a letter British English , mail a letter American English
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Could you post this letter for me?
post an advertisement (= put it on a website )
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The agency has posted an advertisement on its website for graduates to work overseas.
post bail ( also put up bail ) (= pay an amount of money to be allowed to stay out of prison )
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He had to post bail of US$100,000 before he could fly home to Canada.
post doctoral
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post doctoral research
post office box
post office
post sth on a website (= put something there )
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She posted the photos on her website.
registered post
report/post a profit (= officially announce a profit )
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The company reported net profits of $3.6 million for fiscal year 2006.
resign your post/position/office
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He later resigned his post as Minister of Energy.
send sth by post/sea/air etc
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Monday is the last day to send cards by post to arrive by Christmas.
staging post
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a staging post on the flight from Australia
take up a post/a position/duties etc
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The headteacher takes her duties up in August.
trading post
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a remote trading post in the Yukon
winning post
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
administrative
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Father Richard, who holds several administrative posts within the Benedictine order as well as being a parish priest, is a trained lawyer.
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All appointments to military and administrative posts were in the gift of the Grand Prince.
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A highly qualified horticulturist found his responsible and mainly administrative post terribly exhausting after his hearing became impaired.
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Some former students have taken up administrative posts in various public and private enterprises and in the civil service and local government.
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Appointments to administrative posts in government departments, public enterprises and other state bureaus are controlled by the appropriate party committee.
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For the next twelve years he held various administrative posts in Bombay.
far
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Micky Bennett's free-kick was flicked on by Gary Blissett and Allon steered the ball in at the far post .
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Savio came down the left side, with Alexi Lalas marking him and crossed the ball to the far post .
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Reads the game well, makes many timely interventions on the far post in defence.
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As Savio got close to the end line, he crossed the ball to the far post .
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David Batty sent over a teasing cross and from beyond the far post Platt got in a powerful header.
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He pumped the ball over to the far post where Whitton finished off, heading past Alan Kelly from eight yards.
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It emerged at the far post where McGoldrick slid in to score his seventh goal of the season.
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Jason Brummell clipped a free-kick over the defence and Gary Traviss hit a superb volley just inside the far post .
important
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In 1750 she married Charles Dalrymple, local landowner and Sheriff-Clerk of Ayrshire, an important post at that time.
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Marvin was only thirty-nine, very young to be given such an important post as director of the National Security Council.
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That did not make him a great writer, nor did that fact prevent his holding an important literary post .
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Once elected, he had too many job-hungry party supporters to waste important posts on political rivals.
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For most of the time he combined this with the very important post of deputy treasurer-at-wars.
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Franco's concern with internal equilibrium was also reflected in the occupants of what were arguably the two most important cabinet posts .
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It would be damaging if the central government was seen to determine such an important post .
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Hilduin's kinsmen held important ecclesiastical posts in the heart of the empire.
key
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Cobham might adorn a diplomatic mission but would surely mismanage a key political post such as that of Canterbury's archbishopric.
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Bill Clinton is scouring lists of eligible Republicans to take over key administration posts that have been held by Democrats.
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Chief Constable Frank Taylor plans to employ civilians in key posts releasing more officers for patrol duties.
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But they also say the United States seems to assume that it should not have to compete for the key posts .
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There is also likely to be ring fencing of some key posts .
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The National Gallery's incoming director, Mr Powell, has several key curatorial posts to fill.
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It is also a key staging post on the route of birds travelling between Siberia and Australasia.
military
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This commemorates the creation in 1829 of a political and military post to govern the islands.
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Deng was made senior deputy premier and soon added party and military posts .
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However, he formally accepted the appointment on April 7 after resigning his military posts .
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When she first arrived, she had thought the place as orderly as a military post .
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All appointments to military and administrative posts were in the gift of the Grand Prince.
near
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Silvinho swung the ball in at pace to the near post , where Chris Armstrong glanced it into his own net.
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Norbury crossed with an overhead kick and Dublin stabbed a close-range shot inside the near post .
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The ball rolls slowly inside the near post .
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Paul Bosvelt's cross to the near post appeared to be converted by Kluivert and was credited as such by the referee.
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More information is available from your nearest post office.
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Palace spurned numerous chances before Coleman headed in Southgate's cross at the near post after 56 minutes.
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Molby swung in the free-kick and Saunders met it perfectly with his head on the near post to score a spectacular goal.
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Ripley beat Paul Parker on the left, cut inside and hit a low cross to the near post .
new
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However the appointment of staff to fill the new posts meant that our overall complement was little changed and consciences were salved.
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A new post of vice chairman was created, and freshman Sen.
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In his new post Stewart displayed enthusiasm and flair.
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Friends of Ickes hoped his efforts would earn him a prestigious new post .
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If in his new post as security overseer he can reduce crime, well and good.
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He chafes at the pomp and security that has descended on him with his new post .
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Charlies leaving the show to take up his new post at the Kings almost at once.
senior
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But he so impressed bosses they asked him to apply for the more senior post of general marketing director.
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Unlike previous prime ministers he has had no real experience in government, running a ministry or serving in a senior post .
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The Federal Chancellor's Office is the largest Federal ministry in terms of senior posts .
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Clinton has subsequently named more than 100 gays and lesbians to senior posts .
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The senior house officer post is a good place to start.
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Even there, senior and management posts go disproportionately to men.
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Indeed, it is evident that women were also under-represented in senior posts and concentrated in the lower posts available.
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The proportion of women who hold senior political posts remains low.
staging
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Not much of any importance until it became a staging post on the London to Brighton turnpike in the eighteenth.
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This was, I kept telling myself, just a staging post .
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In all these areas, stations played a vital role as the staging posts of industrial supply and demand.
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They are the vital staging post for millions of birds migrating between Siberia and Australasia.
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The new charters were to be a staging post .
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Certainly Snaith Priory was a staging post for pilgrims travelling from Lincoln to York, as recorded on the altar kneelers.
trading
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Others had grown up around old-established trading posts , such as those on the Gold Coast or in Sierra Leone.
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They realised the strategic importance of the site and used it as a naval base and trading post .
winning
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They made it to the winning post fairly creditably.
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It was famous as the winning post of boat races from Westminster Bridge.
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Less than 50 yards from the winning post , the horse unaccountably staggered, collapsed to the ground, and failed to finish.
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Bite the Bullet continued to drift left-handed as the winning post raced towards them.
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Rushing Wild's jockey, Richard Dunwoody, gave Dwyer a pat on the back a few yards after the winning post .
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The tell-tale noises were close, but so was the winning post - or was it?
■ NOUN
border
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McCready had watched him enter the corridor between the two border posts , then lost sight of him.
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The border post formalities are quickly completed.
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But yesterday at the Hendaye border post , near Bayonne, lorries were passing freely without any form of control.
command
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A command post was operating in Rukaramu.
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The demonic forces have their command post in the basement offices of the psychology department.
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Regrouping at the Colonel's command post began around 0300 hours, 90 minutes after landing.
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The occasional sound of small-arms fire punctuated the lunchtime action at the company command post .
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The government forces concentrated their efforts on the destruction of the Mbari command post .
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We got three bunkered command posts destroyed here.
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The living room was fitted as a command post with radio and large-scale maps on the wall.
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My office became the temporary command post .
fence
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Soldier impaled on fence post tells how he survived.
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The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into a warm, squirming, farting, sighing earth.
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He was beaten with a fence post and stabbed.
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Our big thing here recently in the Southwest is displaying boots on fence posts along the highways.
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Huge pyres of old railway sleepers and fence posts are being built to burn the bodies.
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I would have been great as a chef, a Mandarin actor, or a fence post .
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Patrick leaned in satisfaction on a fence post .
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On the right is a worker painting bowling pins the size of fence posts .
lamp
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They told him they had heard that the doctor had managed to avoid them all by driving into the lamp post .
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On the artificial turf of the Superdome, Smith raced around him as if he were a lamp post on Bourbon Street.
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The other should be on if the image includes a lamp post .
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One blooming lamp post at the corner and that's it.
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Swerved and crashed into a lamp post .
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They're better than lamp posts and that, cos trees grow out of the ground, so they're extra special like.
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The populace took comfort in the fact that the law was unenforceable; there simply weren't enough lamp posts .
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On the third lesson the defendant drove negligently and hit a lamp post .
observation
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Capt. Warr found an excellent observation post , but our party was not so successful.
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The bright red Infobox, a temporary three-story structure, provides a handy observation post .
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It was some kind of an observation post or mast.
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There could be other events, like the flamethrower attack on an observation post farther along the border.
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The police stations were like forts, with enormous wire fences and armoured observation posts , but so what?
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He had found the observation post two miles beyond the outer rim of the Jabal Hamrin.
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My day is over, but the soldiers on the line will continue to man observation posts and patrol throughout the night.
office
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The post office's financial viability rests on its investment product, the good old post office savings book.
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By 1888, the Contention City post office closed; other communities followed.
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Any post office receipts for registered mail should be gummed into a special book kept for that purpose. 5.
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Credit card payments are now accepted at nearly every post office .
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Until her marriage in 1903 she worked in post offices in Buckinghamshire, Essex, and Hampshire.
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An account can be opened at any post office with a minimum of £5.
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There is still a post office .
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Some found jobs in the post office .
teaching
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Some former course members have since obtained fulltime teaching posts in adult education.
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Local Management of Schools also raises the problem of how extensively and at what costs a teaching post should be advertised?
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Julie Jack, emeritus fellow in philosophy, was appointed to a teaching post at King's College, Cambridge.
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His father had been accepted for a teaching post .
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And several teaching posts may also go.
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Everyone in the profession is aware that some people can be absent from teaching posts and not be missed.
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A prestigious teaching post at Winchester had been terminated abruptly some years before, and Hugo had failed to hold another since.
war
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A comparison with the position of young people at other stages in the post war period helps to put this in context.
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During the post war period there have been a number of studies of the transition from school to work.
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I have no date for the 3d ticket but it could be post war .
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He did inherit the assets of the Company post war , but took the projects no further.
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The immediate post war period was also when the practice of retirement at around age 65 became almost universal among manual workers.
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The great boom of the war years had passed and the docks were settling down to the post war doldrums.
■ VERB
accept
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No entry will be accepted after last post on Wednesday September 30, 1992.
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Credit card payments are now accepted at nearly every post office.
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But will Reilly now accept the post ?
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It was often difficult to persuade able men to accept diplomatic posts in distant capitals.
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After the restoration of democracy in 1994 he returned and accepted the post of adviser to President Rene
apply
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The same applies for the post of Sun Microsystems Computer Corp's vice president of marketing.
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Three of the committee members have applied for council posts , negating their earlier commitments not to.
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I applied for the occasional post that I thought might be interesting, but never heard anything back.
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Students are eligible for a loan during the sandwich or placement year and may apply by post .
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Originally I'd hoped to apply for Scale 2 posts ... but there are very few jobs, now.
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A similar procedure should be applied to all research posts .
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Pregnancy is acceptable, but should a woman lose her baby she will lose her right to apply for such a post .
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They became close friends, and when Arnet died in 1728 Hooper applied for the vacant post .
appoint
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Melancia, who had been appointed to the post in mid-1987, had been implicated in a financial scandal in February 1990.
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She had been appointed to big post in State Department there.
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Eric Connor has been appointed to the new post of director of resources at Northern Electric's operational director's department.
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Lahoud, formerly commander in chief of the army, uses officers he has appointed to key posts as his power base.
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Cumin makes the significant point that employers appoint school leavers to posts before examination results are known in any case.
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Julie Jack, emeritus fellow in philosophy, was appointed to a teaching post at King's College, Cambridge.
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Until a generation ago it was not uncommon for a successful parish church organist to be appointed to a cathedral post .
arrive
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The summons arrives in the post .
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After they have arrived at their posts , however, disappointment and frustration sometimes set in.
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Jot your entries on a postcard please, addressed to Caption Competition 1155 to arrive by first post on 27 March.
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The International Speakers of the Co-Workers told me that cheques large and small arrive regularly in their post .
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Entries must arrive by last post on Friday August 30, 1991.
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Armed with these unpromising instructions he arrived and assumed his post on 31 August 1946.
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A little parcel had arrived through the post that morning from the old people's home at Tower Hamlets.
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Five days later, two official copies of the letter arrived by post .
create
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In some cases schools have taken the opportunity offered by a delegated budget to create new posts .
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Mr Milburn said the Labour party would create the post of an Environment Minister.
fill
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However the appointment of staff to fill the new posts meant that our overall complement was little changed and consciences were salved.
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MacDonald could scarcely find enough party stalwarts with the ability or experience to fill even the major posts .
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The training council is now trying to recruit some one to fill the £45,000-a-year post .
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She used to be with Grand Metropolitan and now, apparently, they've had to appoint men to fill her post .
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Mr Ozal is now under pressure to seek agreement with the opposition on a suitably dignified figure to fill the post .
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Also, when does the right hon. and learned Gentleman hope to fill the post of Director of Public Prosecutions?
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Staff are also seconded to fill established posts in geological survey departments in the developing nations of the Commonwealth.
hit
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Both West Ham and Leeds had good chances to score with Pemberton hitting the post during the second half.
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An open-net, point-blank shot from 5 feet out hit the post in the third period.
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It was only a month ago that the index hit a post crash high of 2,423.9.
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Gretzky just missed adding another goal in the third, when he hit the left post at 4: 28.
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The whole ground groaned as Mike hit the post .
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Earlier, Craggs had kicked a penalty and then hit the post when attempting to convert Steve Towns' try.
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Pemberton hit the post from a long way out for Leeds.
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I thought that maybe, with the ribber on half pitch, the transfer needle had hit a ribber sinker post .
hold
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He also holds the posts of Prime Minister and Defence Minister.
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House Republican Conference rules prohibit a censured lawmaker from being a committee chairman or holding a leadership post .
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Floirat remained attached to his native region and had held the mayor's post in Nailhac since 1959.
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He currently holds the post of chief operating officer.
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Two of the ministers particularly distinguished themselves by holding the post for a six-month period.
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That did not make him a great writer, nor did that fact prevent his holding an important literary post .
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Though he holds no official post , he is seen as the most influential politician in the state.
leave
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I thought that Duncan Nichol was leaving his post as chief executive of the health service in June.
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Because utmost vigilance was required of him, he was reluctant to leave his post for any length of time.
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Officials have been accused of massive theft of government funds in the months before leaving their posts .
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Oengo chose to become a pastor, and left his university post without compensation.
listen
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Hides and footpaths give close views and there are listening posts and a tap rail for handicapped visitors.
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In 1963 two more of the second-generation seaborne listening posts were commissioned.
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One former employee of the Kirknewton listening post explained the routine: Intercepted telegrams came through on telex machines.
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At night, we would go on ambush patrol or sit in a foxhole or listening post .
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Smaller listening posts were located at Guam.
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It was capable of duplicating everything those listening posts could do.
lose
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Probably got lost in the post .
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Felix Gromov, 60, who not only lost his post but was dismissed from the navy.
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If you cut too much, the context could be lost when the original post is deleted.
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He remembers, Afterward Wu lost his academic post because of Red Guard reports.
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Even then, they can lose the post for the most bizarre reasons.
offer
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The number of funded vacancies may be insufficient for all of them to be offered full-time posts .
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He returned to Hopkins after Blalock offered him a post in the art department.
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He was more interested in offering the post to John Lloyd, one of the most respected journalists on the Financial Times.
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He was offered the post of clerk to the Privy Council or of Ambassador to Savoy.
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Six seats would be allocated to Taylor, who was offered the post of Speaker and could make nominations for the cabinet.
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Following Bennett's withdrawal a number of other candidates had been unsuccessfully approached until Yeutter was offered the post on Jan. 3.
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Morris wrote endlessly and was even offered the post of poet laureate.
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It is understood that he would have liked to have been offered the post of Leader of the House.
remain
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Its first act, on Tuesday, was to oblige Kinnock to remain in his post until 18 July.
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Many of the remaining posts are shabby, unsafe and ill-equipped.
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Mr Hodac remains in his post until a replacement is appointed.
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Let them remain dumb as a post .
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Publicly, Mr Kinnock's closest colleagues were urging him to remain in post .
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Arias had remained in the constitutional post of First Vice-President without attending Cabinet meetings.
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All three staff remain in post .
resign
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Iliescu resigned his party posts following his assumption of the presidency and asked Roman to form a government.
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Bourne resigned his post over a controversy involving a prescription he wrote for a member of his staff.
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Football League President Gordon McKeag is set to resign his post and stand again as an independent candidate.
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From the wait-and-negotiate camp, Secretary of State Vance resigned his post in protest.
retain
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Robertson retained his post as Minister of Information.
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He has retained his post at the imperial court in Hue.
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No doubt it was easier to reform it with Dzerzhihsky nut of Moscow, although he retained his post as head.
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Nim retained his post as Vice-Minister of National Defence.
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Gen. Oscar Botero, the Defence Minister under the previous regime, was retained in his post .
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Cardoso de Mello retained her post .
return
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One was returned by the post office and one other had been sent to an inappropriate student.
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The military leader was returned to the post he first held from 1979 until 1991, when public discontent forced him out.
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After the restoration of democracy in 1994 he returned and accepted the post of adviser to President Rene
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The gendarmes returned to their posts as the crowd stood frozen in stunned silence.
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Sister Andrew returned to her post .
send
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Her Confidential File etc. has been sent via registered post .
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Documentation is sent through the post when the software is downloaded.
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All tickets sent by return post .
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But it is illegal to import it, send it through the post or display it to the general public.
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Fax or telex messages should therefore refer to the standard terms, but the terms themselves be sent by post .
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Registration of mail is used when money or valuables are sent through the post .
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Or if you're not going back to the hospital, it will be sent to you by post .
take
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A niece took over the post office when she married, and it was moved to the present premises.
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Hilton took over the post in 1966 from his father, company founder Conrad Hilton.
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He will take up his new post next month.
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Also, you can use this jig if you are taking your posts down and placing them on sawhorses.
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Horsley cheerfully admitted when he took up the post of Chair that he knew nothing about newspapers.
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Thomas F.. Birmingham, who has the secured the necessary votes to take over the post .
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Soon afterwards his father took up a post as superintendent with the Electric Telegraph Company in London.
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Thomas Birmingham, a third-term legislator, is expected to take over the post .
teach
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With half the teaching posts unfilled, only 60 % of children receive an education.
trade
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Prices at the trading posts averaged nine times higher than back East.
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The fort became a trading post that attracted a religiously diverse population.
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And there's a new trading post in the museum.
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Traders began encouraging Navajo women to weave rugs to trade for food and necessities at the trading post .
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He was visiting one of our trading posts there, and never came back.
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Almost immediately this treaty was transgressed by the construction of fortified trading posts on the Platte River and along the Oregon Trail.
win
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Backed by the conservative establishment, Mr Rafsanjani stands alone among 29 reformers, who won the other posts .
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It was that reputation for impartiality that in December 1995, won him the sensitive post of investigating Gingrich.
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Lugar won the post in 1964 and found himself allied with the top vote-getter, a black woman.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be driven/pushed from pillar to post
by return (of post)
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Any sent will be copied and sent back by return of post.
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But Smith bailed them out by returning seven punts for a school-record 150 yards.
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Companies are classified by returns , and all companies with an equivalent return have the same business risk.
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Earlier this year, the Dole campaign alienated many Log Cabin members by returning a campaign contribution from the gay organization.
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He was given 25 years but tried to negotiate a cut in his sentence by returning half of the stolen gold.
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I end it by returning to those encounters.
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Please answer by return of mail.
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Professor Sano writes back by return mail.
express post/mail
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A friend on the Examiner staff sent a supply of Combat by express mail.
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Competition has forced drastic improvements in some areas, such as express mail.
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Editing was done via express mail.
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The thing will make phone calls, fax, send E-mail, post or express mail, address envelops and post reminders.
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There are three principal product areas: letters, express mail and parcels.
pip sb at the post
relieve sb of their post/duties/command etc
second-class mail/post/stamp etc
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First-class and second-class mail should be put through the machine on separate runs.
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The quantity relative for second-class stamps is 140.0, indicating an increase in numbers bought of 40%.
the Post Office
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A niece took over the post office when she married, and it was moved to the present premises.
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He found him across the street from the post office.
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I lived outside myself, trying to forget the shin, and think only of the post office at Reggane.
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J., last year, when a man shot up the post office in a bizarre robbery.
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Last month, the Post Office announced it was shedding 15,000 jobs.
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She sent a registered letter and the Post Office sent her his signed receipt for it, dated May 18.
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We will set performance targets for the Post Office and ensure they are published in all offices, together with results achieved.
the last post
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a fence post
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Environmentalists supported Murphy as the best candidate for the director's post .
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Her nightgown hung on a bed post .
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Paul was opening his post when Margot phoned.
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She has been offered the post of director of UNICEF.
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Soldiers are not allowed to leave their posts.
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the post of deputy environmental secretary
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Was there any post for me this morning?
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When he took up his present post at the BBC he was only 23.
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When the post came, she searched anxiously for his scrawled handwriting.
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You will receive the application form by post .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A niece took over the post office when she married, and it was moved to the present premises.
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He had found the observation post two miles beyond the outer rim of the Jabal Hamrin.
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It has been increased by 27 posts.
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The post was duly advertised and an appointment was made from the end of June.
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The tarp rolled askew, one end wrapped around the goal post .
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When headmen's posts became vacant, many were sold by the chief headmen to the highest bidder.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
abroad
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It should be noted that the majority of employees posted abroad are men although the number of women executive expatriates is increasing.
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The Centre for International Briefing runs residential courses for those due to be posted abroad .
■ NOUN
account
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On 7 March he entertained at the hotel - the bill No. 216 amounting to £16.50 was posted to his account .
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All seven transactions are numbered and posted to the appropriate accounts .
bond
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Bidders are now required to post six-figure performance bonds , to be forfeited upon failure.
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But if Simpson does appeal, he will have to post a bond of one and a half times the total judgments.
company
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The previous record was in 1989, when the company posted a profit of 2. 83 billion francs.
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The company posted a loss of 313 billion yen a year earlier after writing off the Sony Pictures debt.
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A year ago, the Atlanta-based company posted a loss of 79 cents a share.
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The company posted better-than-expected earnings earlier this week on strong sales of its specialty chips.
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The company also will post a loss for the period.
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In fourth-quarter 1994, the company posted income of $ 2. 5 million, or 29 cents a share.
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The company posted a 122 percent rise in operating profit for fiscal 1995, aided primarily by the acquisition.
decline
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The performance of life insurers will vary widely, although all are expected to post declines .
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Others waited until 1995 and will now post related declines .
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Corn prices posted a smaller decline , falling six cents to $ 3. 6050 a bushel.
document
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Service is to be effected by posting the process or document in a prepaid registered envelope, or by personal delivery.
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This new software also lets you post documents to the World Wide Web.
earnings
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Analysts had expected Cyrix to post earnings of five cents to 10 cents a share.
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Without the one-time charges, WellPoint posted flat year-end earnings .
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P 500 have posted earnings for the quarter ended Dec. 31.
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The chain of recreational-vehicle and boat stores posted fiscal 1995 earnings of 20 cents a share, doubling the year-earlier profit.
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Major aluminum makers, benefiting from higher prices for fabricated products, are expected to post stronger fourth-quarter earnings .
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Bradstreet said it expects to post 1995 earnings of $ 3. 80 per share before the pretax charge.
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Mr Tumazos warned that aluminum makers could post disappointing earnings this year if production increases as much as indicated.
gain
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Stores posted healthy gains after reporting lively post-Christmas sales.
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Osborn said it would post a fourth-quarter pretax gain of $ 8. 1 million as a result of the sale.
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Shares of small Contractors, especially, have posted big gains since the announcement.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its best gain in two weeks.
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The broader market posted a larger gain , with the Standard&038;.
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Brady bonds may have already posted most of the gains they will achieve in 1996, Blessing said.
income
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A year earlier, Dura posted net income of $ 803, 000, or seven cents a share.
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In fourth-quarter 1994, the company posted income of $ 2. 5 million, or 29 cents a share.
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Hilton Hotels posted net income of $ 38. 1 million, or 79 cents, in the year-ago quarter.
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Analysts had expected Symantec to post operating income of about 15 cents a share.
increase
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It was also the only country to post an increase in the number of patents received in foreign countries.
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Us Inc. posted a 7 % increase in holiday sales despite a fierce price war among discount retailers.
information
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Organizations posting political or religious information on to the World Wide Web will need to register with the broadcasting authority.
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It will always be easy to post information anonymously, or from a country where you face little danger of legal action.
letter
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He took up the file and studied the plain white paper envelope the letter had been posted in.
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Our telephone conversations were eavesdropped, letters were posted unsealed and read by censors before going out into the world.
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I felt a little embarrassed about putting myself forward, but she nagged me until I wrote a letter and posted it off.
loss
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The company posted a loss of 313 billion yen a year earlier after writing off the Sony Pictures debt.
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A year ago, the Atlanta-based company posted a loss of 79 cents a share.
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Both companies, however, are expected to post losses for the quarter that ended in December.
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The company also will post a loss for the period.
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It has posted increasing losses in five straight quarters, despite steadily rising revenues.
material
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Most will follow Barclays and write to their customers asking for permission to post them corrupting materials .
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It will post the material , via mission control in San Francisco, on the Internet.
million
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Dynamic Matrix is expected to post about $ 17 million in revenue in 1995.
percent
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The company posted a 122 percent rise in operating profit for fiscal 1995, aided primarily by the acquisition.
profit
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By contrast, in 1990 the airline posted a profit of £130 million.
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It posted lower operating profit at its power systems and motors-operations businesses.
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USAir reported a profit in the second and third quarters and expects to post its first profit since 1988 this fiscal year.
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The previous record was in 1989, when the company posted a profit of 2. 83 billion francs.
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The growers who are crying wolf today about the lack of water will post their annual profits in a few months.
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A decline in oil stocks countered gains in companies expected to post higher profits even in a sluggish economy.
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Nestle posted 1994 net profit of 2. 94 billion francs, before items.
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Santa Clara-based 3Com Corp. yesterday posted record profits and sales for the third fiscal quarter ended February 29.
result
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Santa Clara-based 3Com Corp. is expected to post its own quarterly results on June 10.
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Everyone signed their ballots and handed them to Drake and Ware who posted the results on the blackboard.
return
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Leon Cooperman, head of Omega Advisors, posted returns of between 26 percent and 32 percent for his funds.
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In three of those years, the 30-year Treasury bond posted negative returns and in two it posted sub-7 % returns.
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On average, they posted returns of nearly 20 %, according to Salomon Brothers.
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But industrial stocks generally underperformed the market, and many cyclical stocks posted negative returns .
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According to Bank Brussels Lambert, steel and nonferrous stocks posted negative returns of 20 % for 1995.
sale
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In January 1999, for instance, 899 sales were posted .
sign
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Other new signs posted to describe scenery have been desecrated or struck down.
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The lane was then closed and signs were posted .
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Like most states, New Hampshire has plenty of speed limit signs posted on its highways.
site
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In 1996, according to information posted on his Internet site , he spoke at more than 430 events in 40 states.
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expect
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Analysts had expected Cyrix to post earnings of five cents to 10 cents a share.
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The performance of life insurers will vary widely, although all are expected to post declines.
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USAir reported a profit in the second and third quarters and expects to post its first profit since 1988 this fiscal year.
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Bradstreet said it expects to post 1995 earnings of $ 3. 80 a share before the pretax charge.
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Both companies, however, are expected to post losses for the quarter that ended in December.
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Santa Clara-based 3Com Corp. is expected to post its own quarterly results on June 10.
keep
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And maybe keep us posted with scientific and industrial data?
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You just keep us posted whose property they land on.
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The scoreboards kept the fans posted as to the ball-and-strike count and the number of outs.
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You just keep us posted , let us know how they're getting on.
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We will keep you posted with the results of this letter-writing campaign.
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I told Bernard to infiltrate the team so that he can keep us posted on their movements.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be driven/pushed from pillar to post
by return (of post)
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Any sent will be copied and sent back by return of post.
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But Smith bailed them out by returning seven punts for a school-record 150 yards.
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Companies are classified by returns , and all companies with an equivalent return have the same business risk.
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Earlier this year, the Dole campaign alienated many Log Cabin members by returning a campaign contribution from the gay organization.
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He was given 25 years but tried to negotiate a cut in his sentence by returning half of the stolen gold.
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I end it by returning to those encounters.
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Please answer by return of mail.
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Professor Sano writes back by return mail.
express post/mail
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A friend on the Examiner staff sent a supply of Combat by express mail.
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Competition has forced drastic improvements in some areas, such as express mail.
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Editing was done via express mail.
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The thing will make phone calls, fax, send E-mail, post or express mail, address envelops and post reminders.
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There are three principal product areas: letters, express mail and parcels.
second-class mail/post/stamp etc
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First-class and second-class mail should be put through the machine on separate runs.
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The quantity relative for second-class stamps is 140.0, indicating an increase in numbers bought of 40%.
the Post Office
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A niece took over the post office when she married, and it was moved to the present premises.
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He found him across the street from the post office.
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I lived outside myself, trying to forget the shin, and think only of the post office at Reggane.
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J., last year, when a man shot up the post office in a bizarre robbery.
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Last month, the Post Office announced it was shedding 15,000 jobs.
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She sent a registered letter and the Post Office sent her his signed receipt for it, dated May 18.
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We will set performance targets for the Post Office and ensure they are published in all offices, together with results achieved.
the last post
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I mailed my dad a postcard from Alaska.
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I must remember to post Joey's birthday card.
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In the third quarter the company posted profits of $14.6 million.
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Rangers have posted warnings at the entrance to the trails.
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Sentries are being posted outside all government buildings.
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They have posted guards at every door to make sure no one enters the building.
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Tickets will be posted to you unless otherwise requested.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If no journal is maintained, transactions would simply be posted to the ledger as they occurred.
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Information abounds - piste maps are dispensed beside lift queues, weather forecasts are posted everywhere and broadcast incessantly.
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It is being centred on the North- east, where the three explosive packages were posted.
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P 500 and the Nasdaq index posted similar advances.
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Picture yourself posting the letter, and feeling that it was a simple matter after all!
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The trading losses were announced as Pier 1 posted strong sales.