g. p. o.

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general post office

noun
(in the U.S. postal system) the main post office of a city, county, etc., that also has branch post offices. Abbreviation: G.P.O., GPO

Origin:
1650–60

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

Government Printing Office

noun U.S. Government.
the federal agency that prints and disseminates publications for other federal agencies. Abbreviation: G.P.O., GPO
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General Post Office
 
n
1.  (in Britain until 1969) the department of the central Government that provided postal and telephone services
2.  the main post office in a locality

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