Posting
['pəʊstɪŋ] or ['postɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) (bookkeeping) a listing on the company's records; 'the posting was made in the cash account'.
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Post
(n.) The act of traveling post.
(n.) The act of transferring an account, as from the journal to the ledger.
Typed by Dave
Examples
- Formerly, they were turned towards the posting-house; now, they are turned towards the prison. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I was rewarded for posting myself sentinel at the lake by the appearance--not of Anne Catherick herself, but of the person in charge of her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- You insist on my posting this letter, Sir Percival? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It is something, too, to be of royal blood, answered I frankly; and something more to be accomplished: but this posting after a man! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- To help my memory I kept a book in which I would write up, from time to time, my recollections of all I had read since last posting it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Then, like the best of men, said Miss Pross, go to the posting-house straight, and make that change. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- She stood aside, on the top step, posting herself there to see what happened. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He was posting away as if upon life and death, and could but just spare time to tell us his errand, and where you all were. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- His Grace is not in the habit of posting letters himself, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Therefore it is sealed and deposited for posting among the iron correspondence of the day. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Posting will cost a dooce of a lot of money, grumbled Rawdon. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- What do you say to Mrs. Bucket having watched the posting of 'em every one by this young woman, Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mrs. Sparsit sat by the fire, with her foot in her cotton stirrup, little thinking whither she was posting. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Leaving the carriage at the posting-house and ordering fresh horses to be ready, my companion gave me his arm, and we went towards home. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He had heard of Monseigneur, at the posting-houses, as being before him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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