postmaster

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From post +‎ master.

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postmaster (plural postmasters)

  1. The head of a post office.
    • 2014 May 14, Andy Newman, “New York Today: Meet Your Postmaster”, in The New York Times[1]:
      With that, Elvin Mercado became the postmaster of Manhattan, ruling the mails from the palatial James A. Farley Post Office on Eighth Avenue.
  2. (Internet) The administrator of an electronic mail system.
  3. (British) A kind of scholar at Merton College, Oxford; portionist.
  4. (archaic) One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travellers; one who supplies post horses.

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