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post-house

post-house is the alternative form of posthouse.

Meaning of posthouse

Noun

posthouse (plural posthouses)

  1. A company that carries out post-production.
    • Slow motion, fades, wipes, and text — once only affordable for major broadcasters and posthouses — now allowed DIY video producers a more polished, professional look.2013, Jesse Drew, A Social History of Contemporary Democratic Media, page 57
  2. (historical) A house at a staging post: an inn with a stable where relays of horses could be changed, for stagecoaches or the mails.
    • At each mile there are little guardhouses, where a policeman is stationed; and there is a wooden gong, which by means of concerted signals may be made to convey information over the country with great rapidity. About every six or seven miles is the post-house, where the horses are changed as...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 157
    Synonyms:
    posting house
  3. (obsolete) A building for distributing mail; a post office.

Adjective capitalized: post-House

post-House (not comparable)

  1. after one's time in the House, typically the House of Representatives
    • In one of the highlights of […] my post-House career, we were able to work together to bring about something that was extraordinary given the political climate of the time.2003, The Cannon Centenary Conference

Forms of post-house

pluralpost-houses

Origin of post-house

From post (“mail, a network of horse couriers”) + house.

From post- + House.

Questions about post-house

What does post-house mean?
Post-house means after one's time in the House, typically the House of Representatives.
What is post-house the alternative form of?
Post-house is the alternative form of posthouse.
What part of speech is post-house?
Post-house is an adjective.

Words near post-house in the dictionary

  1. post-horns
  2. post-horse
  3. post-horses
  4. post-hospitalisation
  5. post-hospitalization
  6. post-house
  7. post-houses
  8. post-human
  9. post-humanism
  10. post-humanisms
  11. post-humans

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