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post off

post off verb: to send away through the postal service; to mail.

Verb

post off (third-person singular simple present posts off, present participle posting off, simple past and past participle posted off)

  1. To send away through the postal service; to mail.
  2. (Early, Modern, archaic) To put off; to delay.
    • A second vse hence we should make, is for reproofe of many, who post off the time of the Lords offer, till age, sicknes, death: of these there are specially two sorts.1608 June 12, Thomas Hopkins, Two Sermons Vpon the XII. Chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrewes […], published 1609, page 63
    • […] let me inferr further, that this late repentance must needs be very dangerous, when as repentance at the best, withall advantages of life, is a worke of the greatest difficulty; why then should we post off that to the last minute, for which all our life is to little?1641 February 6, John Marston, A Sermon Preached at St. Margaretts in VVestminster […], published 1642, page 26

Forms of post off

third-person singular presentposts off
present participleposting off
past participleposted off
pastposted off

Questions about post off

What does post off mean?
Post off means to send away through the postal service; to mail.
What part of speech is post off?
Post off is a verb.
What is the past tense of post off?
The past tense of post off is posted off.

Words near post off in the dictionary

  1. post oak
  2. post oak bluff
  3. post oak bluffs
  4. post oaks
  5. post obitum
  6. post off
  7. post office
  8. post office box
  9. post office boxes
  10. post office order
  11. post office orders

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