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posthouse

posthouse noun: a company that carries out post-production.

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.

Synonyms of posthouse

Forms of posthouse

pluralposthouses
alternative formpost house
alternative formpost-house

Origin of posthouse

From post + house.

Questions about posthouse

What does posthouse mean?
Posthouse means a company that carries out post-production.
What part of speech is posthouse?
Posthouse is a noun.
What is the plural of posthouse?
The plural of posthouse is posthouses.

Words near posthouse in the dictionary

  1. posthorse
  2. posthorses
  3. posthospital
  4. posthospitalisation
  5. posthospitalization
  6. posthouse
  7. posthouses
  8. posthuman
  9. posthumanism
  10. posthumanisms
  11. posthumanist

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