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posting house

posting 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.

Forms of posting house

pluralposting houses

Origin of posting house

From posting + house.

Questions about posting house

What is posting house the alternative form of?
Posting house is the alternative form of posthouse.

Words near posting house in the dictionary

  1. postinfundibular
  2. postinfusion
  3. posting
  4. posting date
  5. posting dates
  6. posting house
  7. posting houses
  8. posting inn
  9. posting off
  10. posting the coal
  11. posting up

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