post
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊst/
enpr: pōst
ipa: /poʊst/
ipa: [poːst]
rhymes: -əʊst
Forms: form: posts
form: posting
form: posted
form: posted
form: poast
Etymology: Inherited from Old English post (“pillar, door-post”) and Latin postis (“a post, a door-post”) through Old French. .
Senses: examples: text: Post no bills.
text: Martin Luther posted his ninety five theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenburg.
glosses: To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
examples: text: The company posted record profits this quarter.
text: Although New York City preceded many large cities in posting a drop in homicides and other violent offenses in the early 1990s, by the end of the decade it also seemed to be at the forefront of a possible cyclical rebound.
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 4, in Illusion of Order:
text: He’s saying if you can’t win, quitting is okay? What would the PGA say if golfers quit the tournament after posting a high score?
ref: 2024 August 23, @jbodineh, Twitter:
glosses: To announce publicly; to publish.
examples: text: to post someone for cowardice
text: On Pain of being posted to your Sorrow
Fail not, at Four, to meet me here To-morrow.
ref: 1732, George Granville, Epilogue to the She-Gallants, line 13:
glosses: To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
examples: text: You have not poſted your Books theſe Ten years; hovv is it poſſible for a Man of Buſineſs to keep his Affairs even in the VVorld at this rate?
ref: 1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “Of John Bull’s Second Wife, and the Good Advice that She Gave Him”, in Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 18:
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
examples: text: thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day
ref: 1872 March 2, “Interviewing a Prince”, in Saturday Review, volume 33, number 853, London, page 273:
glosses: To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
examples: text: Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand.
topics: gambling
games
glosses: To deposit a payment that may or may not be returned.
To pay (a stake or blind).
examples: text: to post bail
text: For example, if the police or court sets bail at $1,000, and a suspect owns a fancy watch worth at least that amount, the defendant may be able to use the watch to post bail.
ref: 2022 January 1, Paul Bergman, Sara J. Berman, The Criminal Law Handbook: Know Your Rights, Survive the System, Nolo, →ISBN:
text: Because wealthy defendants are better positioned to post bail or provide collateral, the American bail system has been criticized as being biased against the poor.
ref: 2010 May 18, David Andrew Schultz, Encyclopedia of the United States Constitution, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 45:
text: Carmen posted a $15,000 bond, and like the other Valenzuelas before her, failed to appear for trial. Morgan's scorecard for case 4: 4.4 pounds seized, 2 Valenzuelas arrested, 1 Valenzuela dismissed, 1 bail jump.
ref: 2006 05, Robert Perry, Dirty Money, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 34:
text: When you post bail, and the case is over, the court system will take 30 percent of that bail which, in this example, will be $3,000 of the original 10 percent that you posted. Hence, you will get $7,000 back.
ref: 1996, Lee N. June, Matthew Parker, Men to Men: Perspectives of Sixteen African-American Christian Men, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 201:
topics: law
glosses: To deposit a payment that may or may not be returned.
To pay bail.
Derived terms: nonposted
poster
post the coal
post up
preposted
unposted