postmaster
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See also: pöstmaster
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]postmaster (plural postmasters)
- 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.
- (Internet) The administrator of an electronic mail system.
- (British) A kind of scholar at Merton College, Oxford; portionist.
- (archaic) One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travellers; one who supplies post horses.
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[edit]head of a post office
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