posted

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
   • Post no bills.
2. (broadly, transitive) To announce publicly; to publish.
   • The company posted record profits this quarter.
3. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
   • to post someone for cowardice
4. To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
   • You have not poſted your Books theſe Ten years; hovv is it poſſible for a Man of Buſineſs to keep his Affairs even in the VVorld at this rate?1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “Of John Bull’s Second Wife, and the Good Advice that She Gave Him”, in Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page...
5. To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
   • thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day1872 March 2, “Interviewing a Prince”, in Saturday Review, volume 33, number 853, London, page 273
6. (transitive) To pay (a stake or blind).
   • Since Jim was new to the game, he had to post $4 in order to receive a hand.

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