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post office
noun
1.
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.
2.
( often initial capital letter ) the department of a government charged with the transportation of mail.
3.
a game in which one player is designated “postmaster” or “postmistress” and calls another player of the opposite sex into an adjoining room, ostensibly to receive a letter but actually to receive a kiss.
Origin:
1625–35
1625–35
Related forms
post-of·fice, adjective
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| post office | |
| —n | |
| a building or room where postage stamps are sold and other postal business is conducted | |
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Post-office
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| 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. |
| Post Office | |
| —n | |
| a government department or authority in many countries responsible for postal services and often telecommunications | |
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