post office

noun

1
: a government department or agency handling the transmission of mail
2
: a local branch of a national post office handling the mail for a particular place or area
3
: a game in which a player acting as postmaster or postmistress may exact a kiss from one of the opposite sex as payment for the pretended delivery of a letter

Examples of post office in a Sentence

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Remote Northern California town gets its post office back. Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025 The Naugatuck train station is a small plexiglass box with a single bench, a lone dot in the expanse of the concrete parking lot, just across from the loading dock of a post office. Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 10 May 2025 There were 50 baby chicks, abandoned at a post office by someone who ordered them but failed to pick them up. Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2025 Several parking spaces on the west side of Third Street near the Chamber of Commerce, Niche Restaurant and post office will also be temporarily closed, according to officials. Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for post office

Word History

First Known Use

1652, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of post office was in 1652

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“Post office.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/post%20office. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

Kids Definition

post office

noun
1
2
: a local branch of the postal service handling the mail for a particular place

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