post office
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- noun
- /ˈpoʊst ˈɔfɪs/
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oficina de correos
- Yesterday afternoon, I went to the post office to send a package.
- local post office
- post office box
- post office job
So there's the the USPS post office, there's FedEx, and there's UPS.
- So there's the the USPS post office, there's FedEx, and there's UPS.
- Is the southernmost post office right at the end of the earth?
- Dry cleaners, post office, water store, those kinds of things.
- I lived above the post office at the time, all gone.
- And sometimes the, the post office will also reimburse you if it's insured.
- Well, dad got a job at the post office and the post office was where the FBI was located.
- I realized I was spending a lot of time at the post office mailing things out, returning things.
Examples
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I realized I was spending a lot of time at the post office mailing things out, returning things.
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I went to the post office to get some stamps, and I waited my usual three hours in line.
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So here he is, walking into the American post office in Paris to pick up his mail.
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It's across the street from the post office just before you reach the turn.
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Tomorrow morning first thing, we hit the post office.
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Retail hours at the post office will not change as planned.
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So let's go to the post office and get some lunch.
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For many of the town's older residents, the post office initially served this purpose.
Academic text (2011) -
I'm looking for a post office.
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Then I brought the letter to the post office and waited to hear from him.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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A nearby place where people send and receive letters and packages
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The core notion of children pretending to be at a postal facility (e.g. in the phrase 'Let's play post office') is derivable by a B1 learner who knows 'post' and 'office' because 'play X' commonly signals role-play. However, the specific ritual element of exchanging kisses for letters is culturally specific and not predictable from the constituent words, so the full game meaning is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Post office comes from the simple idea of a place for the post, people who carried letters, and an office, a building where work is done. So, it means 'a building for mail, stamps, and packages'.