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post office
[pohst aw-fis, of-is]
noun
an office or station of a government postal system at which mail is received and sorted, from which it is dispatched and distributed, and at which stamps are sold or other services rendered. PO, P.O.
Often Post Office the department of a government charged with the transportation of mail.
an old-fashioned game in which one player is designated “postmaster†or “postmistress†and calls another player of a different gender into an adjoining room, ostensibly to receive a letter but actually to receive a kiss.
Post Office
1noun
a government department or authority in many countries responsible for postal services and often telecommunications
post office
2noun
a building or room where postage stamps are sold and other postal business is conducted
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- post-office adjective
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of post office1
Example Sentences
Approach, for instance, the post office in the fictional town of Calico, and you may be handed a package to deliver — only now you’re caught up in randomly weird storyline.
Turns out it’s not a city but the name of the post office for two places not exactly known as sanctuaries: Folsom State Prison and California State Prison, Sacramento.
The sausages were to have passed through the newly built Yosemite National Park post office before being delivered to a beloved Yosemite Valley restaurateur.
The 14-story building also housed downtown’s main post office and other federal agencies.
The post office soon will move back into the unadorned wooden building on Brighton Avenue where it had operated for six decades.
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