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Posting   /pˈoʊstɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Posting  n.  
1.
The act of traveling post.
2.
(Bookkeeping) The act of transferring an account, as from the journal to the ledger.
Posting house, a post house.


verb
Post  v. t.  (past & past part. posted; pres. part. posting)  
1.
To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice; to post playbills. Note: Formerly, a large post was erected before the sheriff's office, or in some public place, upon which legal notices were displayed. This way of advertisement has not entirely gone of use.
2.
To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice. "On pain of being posted to your sorrow Fail not, at four, to meet me."
3.
To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like.
4.
To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel. "It might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant,... or to get him posted."
5.
(Bookkeeping) To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger. "You have not posted your books these ten years."
6.
To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter.
7.
To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up. "Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day."
To post off, to put off; to delay. (Obs.) "Why did I, venturously, post off so great a business?"
To post over, to hurry over. (Obs.)


Post  v. i.  
1.
To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste. "Post seedily to my lord your husband." "And post o'er land and ocean without rest."
2.
(Man.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting. (Eng.)





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"Posting" Quotes from Famous Books



... becoming apparent that the man with the apron had as shrewdly anticipated the character of the coming night as if he had been soberer. The sun, ere its setting, disappeared in a thick leaden haze, which enveloped the whole heavens; and twilight seemed posting on to night a full hour before its time. I settled a very moderate bill, and set off under the cliffs at a round pace, in the hope of scaling the hill, and gaining the high road atop which leads to Macduff, ...
— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller
... out my samples more for the purpose of posting myself than with hopes of selling him, and where my patterns were like those in his stock he passed mine over without a word, but I saw that two patterns of mine pleased him. They were even-enders, 3 1/2 in. brass lined, ...
— A Man of Samples • Wm. H. Maher
... topics of interest in their monotonous lives. We seem to see them even now—a little coterie—nearly all engaged in the company's employ, mill hands, fishermen, lime-burners, laborers, while in a corner James White pores over his ledger posting his accounts by the light of his candle and now and again mending his goose-quill pen. But even at the store the cheerful company soon disperses; the early-closing system evidently prevails, the men seek their several ...
— Glimpses of the Past - History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 • W. O. Raymond
... as the most of the other attributes of human nature. You sit down and read two hours on an interesting topic. A friend opens the same subject to you, a day afterward, in conversation, and you fairly carry him by storm. That is unfair, for you should say you have been "posting up"—but it shows the value of a library. By frequent "posting" on whatever you have read, you become a ...
— The Golden Censer - The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future • John McGovern
... said—a very great deal, possibly. If he was shut up somewhere they could make him write a set of these letters off at a sitting, and send them from place to place to be posted, to make us think he was travelling, and prevent our finding where they keep him. Here it is plain there was a slip in posting the ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu


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