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posting off

posting off is the present participle and gerund of post off.

Meaning of post off

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

Questions about posting off

What is posting off the present participle and gerund of?
Posting off is the present participle and gerund of post off.

Words near posting off in the dictionary

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

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