Word Meanings - POST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Hired to do what is wrong; suborned. Sir E. Sandys.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of POST)

• Office
• Service
• duty
• appointment
• function
• employment
• station
• business post
• Pillar
• Column
• shaft
• post
• support
• Situation
• Locality
• position
• top
• site
• seat
• place
• condition
• residence
• aspect
• footing
• office
• birth
• plight
• predicament
• standing
• Station
• Standing
• occupation
• business
• situation
• state
• rank
• location

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of POST)

• Suppress
• repress
• suppose
• imply
• deny
• contradict
• retract
• Drop
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• discontinue
• oppose
• discourage
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• discountenance
• disfavor
• subvert
• suppress

Related words: (words related to POST)

• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• STATIONARINESS
  The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• SHAFTING
  Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• FOOTMARK
  A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.
• CONTRADICTIVE
  Contradictory; inconsistent. -- Con`tra*dict"ive*ly, adv..
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• PILLARED
  Supported or ornamented by pillars; resembling a pillar, or pillars. "The pillared arches." Sir W. Scott. "Pillared flame." Thomson.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• GOOSEFOOT
  A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• MENOSTATION
  See MENOSTASIS
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
• SURFOOT
  Tired or sore of foot from travel; lamed. Nares.
• SALTFOOT
  A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• TORPEDO STATION
  A headquarters for torpedo vessels and their supplies, usually having facilities for repairs and for instruction and experiments. The principal torpedo station of the United States is at Newport,
• PAPILLARY
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papillæ; bearing, or covered with, papillæ; papillose.