Postmaster
['pəʊs(t)mɑːstə] or ['postmæstɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travelers; one who supplies post horses.
(n.) One who has charge of a post office, and the distribution and forwarding of mails.
Editor: Madge
Examples
- The postmaster is still something of a policeman. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Congress had appropriated $8,000 to maintain it for the first year, and placed it under the direction of the Postmaster-General. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- So far as theory and details of working are concerned, there are a good many people still in the same shadowy frame of mind as the old Aberdeen postmaster, of whom the story is told. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Darnay asked the postmaster, when he had thanked him, and stood beside him in the yard. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I am deputy postmaster-general of North America. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Marshall Jewell was Postmaster-General of President Grant's Cabinet, and Daniel Lamont was Secretary of State in President Cleveland's. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I could easily receive it by writing to the postmaster if I happened to be away from the town when it arrived. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Wynne, afterward a consul-general, served as Assistant Postmaster General. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- On this day General Gresham, since our Postmaster-General, was very badly wounded. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Typist: Shirley