Booking office
() An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. |
Booking office
() An office where passage tickets are sold. |
Crown office
() The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. |
Crown-post
(n.) Same as King-post. |
Ex post facto
() Alt. of Ex postfacto |
King-post
(n.) A member of a common form of truss, as a roof truss. It is strictly a tie, intended to prevent the sagging of the tiebeam in the middle. If there are struts, supporting the main rafters, they often bear upon the foot of the king-post. Called also crown-post. |
Lamp-post
(n.) A post (generally a pillar of iron) supporting a lamp or lantern for lighting a street, park, etc. |
Office
(n.) That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others |
Office
(n.) A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose |
Office
(n.) A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself |
Office
(n.) That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform |
Office
(n.) The place where a particular kind of business or service for others is transacted |
Office
(n.) The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office |
Office
(n.) The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. |
Office
(n.) Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass |
Office
(v. t.) To perform, as the duties of an office |
Post-
() A prefix signifying behind, back, after |
Post
(a.) Hired to do what is wrong |
Post
(n.) A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as a stay or support to something else |
Post
(n.) The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers |
Post
(n.) The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed |
Post
(n.) A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognized route |
Post
(n.) A military station |
Post
(n.) The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited. |
Post
(n.) A messenger who goes from station |
Post
(n.) An established conveyance for letters from one place or station to another |
Post
(n.) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier. |
Post
(n.) One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station. |
Post
(n.) A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument |
Post
(n.) A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper. |
Post
(v. t.) To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices |
Post
(v. t.) To hold up to public blame or reproach |
Post
(v. t.) To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like. |
Post
(v. t.) To assign to a station |
Post
(v. t.) To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger |
Post
(v. t.) To place in the care of the post |
Post
(v. t.) To inform |
Post
(v. i.) To travel with post horses |
Post
(v. i.) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, esp. in trotting. |
Post
(adv.) With post horses |
Post-abdomen
(n.) That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax |
Post-captain
(n.) A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was "posted," in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy |
Post-disseizin
(n.) A subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor |
Post-disseizor
(n.) A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor. |
Post-fine
(n.) A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands, when the same was fully passed |
Post-mortem
(a.) After death |
Post note
() A note issued by a bank, payable at some future specified time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand. |
Post-obit
() Alt. of Post-obit bond |
Post-obit bond
() A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has expectations. |
Post office
(n.) See under 4th Post. |
autopsy
necropsy
postmortem
post-mortem
PM
postmortem examination
post-mortem examination | an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease |
| post | the delivery and collection of letters and packages, it came by the first post, if you hurry you'll catch the post |
| post office | a children's game in which kisses are exchanged for pretended letters |
position post
berth
office spot billet
place
situation | a job in an organization, he occupied a post in the treasury |
| public office | a position concerning the people as a whole |
function
office part role | the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group, the function of a teacher, the government must do its part, play its role |
| office | a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities, the offices of the mass |
| Divine Office | canonical prayers recited daily by priests (e.g. the breviary of the Roman Catholic Church) |
| Little Office | a Roman Catholic office honoring the Virgin Mary, similar to but shorter than the Divine Office |
| Office of the Dead | an office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church |
| land-office business | very large and profitable volume of commercial activity |
powder-post termite
Cryptotermes brevis | extremely destructive dry-wood termite of warm regions |
post horse
post-horse
poster | a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers |
box office
ticket office
ticket booth | the office where tickets of admission are sold |
checkroom
left-luggage office | a room where baggage or parcels are checked |
command post
general headquarters
GHQ | military headquarters from which a military commander controls and organizes the forces |
| corner post | a square post supporting a structural member at the corner of a building |
country store
general store
trading post | a retail store serving a sparsely populated region, usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise |
| government office | an office where government employees work |
headquarters central office
main office
home office
home base | (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise, many companies have their headquarters in New York |
hinging post
swinging post | the gatepost on which the gate is hung |
| hitching post | a fixed post with a ring to which a horse can be hitched to prevent it from straying |
| king post | post connecting the crossbeam to the apex of a triangular truss |
| land office | a government office where business relating to public lands is transacted |
| life office | life assurance office |
| loan office | an office where loans are negotiated and repaid |
military post
post | military installation at which a body of troops is stationed, this military post provides an important source of income for the town nearby, there is an officer's club on the post |
newel post
newel | the post at the top or bottom of a flight of stairs, it supports the handrail |
office
business office | place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed, he rented an office in the new building |
office building
office block | a building containing offices where work is done |
| office furniture | furniture intended for use in an office |
| Oval Office | the office of the President of the United States in the White House |
pawnbroker's shop
pawnshop
loan office | a shop where loans are made with personal property as security |
| post | an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position, he set a row of posts in the ground and strung barbwire between them |
| post and lintel | a structure consisting of vertical beams (posts) supporting a horizontal beam (lintel) |
| post chaise | closed horse-drawn carriage with four wheels, formerly used to transport passengers and mail |
post exchange
PX | a commissary on a United States Army post |
posthole
post hole | a hole dug in the ground to hold a fence post |
posthole digger
post-hole digger | a shovel used to sink postholes |
| post horn | wind instrument used by postilions of the th and th centuries |
posthouse
post house | an inn for exchanging post horses and accommodating riders |
Post-Office box
PO Box
POB
call box letter box | a numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for |
| post road | a road over which mail is carried |
| queen post | vertical tie post in a roof truss |
| shipping office | the office of a shipping agent, an office where seamen are hired |
| shutting post | the gatepost against which the gate closes |
telephone pole
telegraph pole
telegraph post | tall pole supporting telephone wires |
| whipping post | post formerly used in public to which offenders are tied to be whipped |
post hoc
post hoc ergo propter hoc | the logical fallacy of believing that temporal succession implies a causal relation |
| Post-It | brand name for a slip of notepaper that has an adhesive that allows it to stick to a surface and be removed without damaging the surface |