postmaster
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈpoʊstˌmæs.tɚ/
:
jefe de correos
- Judge, you got a new postmaster.
- Postmaster General
- appointed postmaster
We'll keep this crooked postmaster in here.
- We'll keep this crooked postmaster in here.
- He's saying senior civil servant told him to slow down the payments to the to the postmasters and this big dispute about what was said.
- But I would send him an A postcard, you know, unborn children and I'm sure way fucking creepy for the postmaster to get.
Examples
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Billy came down with his dishes, smiled shyly at the postmaster, then returned upstairs.
Fiction book (1991) -
“The first postmaster general was Benjamin Franklin.
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I mean, I met the postmaster today.
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During the four weeks I was in the hospital... the postmaster finally caught up with me.
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My father was postmaster then.
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- Who is the postmaster?
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The local postmaster was a permanent resident, as were the stationmaster and his wife.
Fiction book (1996) -
Got a call from the postmaster that there's a registered letter for me downtown from my Wellcome.
Fiction book (1999) -
If it isn't the Postmaster of Millersburg, Ohio.
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The new postmaster implemented changes to improve the efficiency of the post office.
Synonyms
1
7.0
A woman who runs a post office
Compounds
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word postmaster is made of post, meaning 'mail' or 'post office', and master, meaning 'person in charge'. So a postmaster is literally the person who runs the post office.