TPO

Noun

travelling post office (plural travelling post offices)

1. (UK) A type of railway coach designed for the carriage and sorting of mail en route.
   • One of the important railway facilities which disappeared on the outbreak of war was the travelling post office. […] T.P.Os. have now been resumed, with the reinstatement on October 1 of those between Euston and Aberdeen, and between Paddington and Penzanze.1945 November and December, “Return of the T.P.O.”, in Railway Magazine, pages 311–312

   Synonyms:

   TPO, mail car

Noun

treatment (countable and uncountable, plural treatments)

1. The process or manner of treating someone or something.
   • He still has nightmares resulting from the abusive treatment he received from his captors.
2. Medical care for an illness or injury.
   • A treatment or cure is applied after a medical problem has already started.

   Synonyms:

   course

3. The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
4. (countable) A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
   • Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii
5. (countable) A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
6. (obsolete) entertainment; treat
   • Accept such treatment as a swain affords.1725–1726, Homer, “Book 14”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC

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