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Found 1 hit - Term: to post off, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
post \post\, v. t. imp.  p. p. posted; p. pr.  vb. n.
   posting.
   1. to attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of
      affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice;
      to post playbills.
      1913 webster

   note: formerly, a large post was erected before the sheriff's
         office, or in some public place, upon which legal
         notices were displayed. this way of advertisement has
         not entirely gone of use.
         1913 webster

   2. to hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise
      opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to
      post one for cowardice.
      1913 webster

            on pain of being posted to your sorrow
            fail not, at four, to meet me.        --granville.
      1913 webster

   3. to enter a name on a list, as for service, promotion, or
      the like.
      1913 webster

   4. to assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a
      sentinel. "it might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant,
      . . . or to get him posted." --de quincey.
      1913 webster

   5. bookkeeping to carry, as an account, from the journal to
      the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as
      accounts, to the ledger.
      1913 webster

            you have not posted your books these ten years.
                                                  --arbuthnot.
      1913 webster

   6. to place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a
      letter.
      1913 webster

   7. to inform; to give the news to; to make one acquainted
      with the details of a subject; -- often with up.
      1913 webster

            thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature
            of the day.                           --lond. sat.
                                                  rev.
      1913 webster

   to post off, to put off; to delay. obs. "why did i,
      venturously, post off so great a business?" --baxter.

   to post over, to hurry over. obs. --fuller.
      1913 webster
see also:
posted posting to post off to post over 

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