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noun

• 1a position of paid employment; a job:he resigned from the post of foreign minister a teaching post

• 2a place where someone is on duty or where a particular activity is carried out:a worker asleep at his post a customs post
• a place where a soldier, guard, or police officer is stationed or that they patrol:he gave the two armed men orders not to leave their posts a command post
• North American a force stationed at a permanent position or camp; a garrison.
• US a local group in an organization of military veterans.

• 3British historical the status or rank of full-grade captain in the Royal Navy:Captain Miller was made post in 1796

verb

• send (someone) to a particular place to take up an appointment:he was posted to Washington as military attaché
• station (someone, especially a soldier, guard, or police officer) in a particular place:a guard was posted at the entrance