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antepost

antepost adjective: being a kind of bet, in horse-racing and greyhound racing, placed before the racecourse's betting market has opened, on the expectation that the price of the animal is presently more favourable than it will be when the market opens.

Adjective

antepost (not comparable)

  1. Being a kind of bet, in horse-racing and greyhound racing, placed before the racecourse's betting market has opened, on the expectation that the price of the animal is presently more favourable than it will be when the market opens.

Forms of antepost

alternative formante-post

Origin of antepost

From ante- + post, the second component in the sense of the traditional "betting post", a stake set up at a racecourse to signal the beginning of fixed betting.

Questions about antepost

What does antepost mean?
Antepost means being a kind of bet, in horse-racing and greyhound racing, placed before the racecourse's betting market has opened, on the expectation that the price of the animal is presently more favourable than it will be when the market opens.
What part of speech is antepost?
Antepost is an adjective.

Words near antepost in the dictionary

  1. anteportico
  2. anteports
  3. anteposition
  4. antepositional
  5. antepositions
  6. antepost
  7. anteprandial
  8. antepredicament
  9. antepredicaments
  10. anteprohibition
  11. antepronotal

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