English English Dictionary

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post in English:

1. postage postage


How did you obtain these old postage stamps?
You have bought more postage stamps than are necessary.
The price includes postage charges.
What will the postage be?
What's the postage for a letter to Poland?
Could you tell me how much the postage for a letter to Denmark is?
postage and packing BrE /postage and handling American English (=the charge for packing and sending something you have bought)
How much is the postage for a postcard?
The price includes postage and packaging.
Call the post office to find out how much postage is needed.
The official designs of the Government, especially its designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage, may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors of national taste.
If they are not free, please let me know how much the catalogue and the postage to Japan are.

English word "post"(postage) occurs in sets:

Word formation nouns

2. a letter a letter


He couldn't tell her that he didn't love her anymore, so he sent her a letter
I have to send a letter.

3. after after


After you.
After school, I go to an English school to practice English conversation.
There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage, or pay their doctor's bills, or save enough for their child's college education.
After a few weeks, doctors made Cleveland a new jaw out of hard rubber.
After the initial shock of hearing of her grandfather's death, the girl started to cry.
We don't have time to finish checking the figures now, but we can go over them after lunch.
After the hatchet job my boss did on my proposal, I'm not sure how long I want to keep on working here.
After slapping Tom's right cheek, Mary stomped on his left foot.
After patiently listening to the audience's complaints, the judges changed the results.
At any rate, I'll go to college after graduating from high school.
Day after day, the dog sat waiting for his master in front of the station.
After dinner, bring your guitar along and we'll sing.
It was after a meeting in America that he decided to write a book for non-scientists.
After a certain point, everything became a little more difficult.
Do you think you can get me to Union Station by a quarter after?

4. job job


Good job!
After the hatchet job my boss did on my proposal, I'm not sure how long I want to keep on working here.
I'm stuck in a rut in my boring job and need to do something new.
Tom gave up his teaching job to become a full-time studio musician.
Pick a job that you enjoy and working will seem easy.
You never can tell what kind of job you might find.
We're giving you more money because you did a great job.
Tom was hard up for money and said he would take any job he was offered.
The job looked quite simple, but it took me a week.
I would quit before I would do that job in this company.
Job security became a major worry.
My job will only last two years at most.
That's a job of your own choosing, isn't it?
It's still too hard to find a job. And even if you have a job, chances are you're having a tougher time paying the rising costs of everything from groceries to gas.
The year after I graduated from college, I was finally able to find a job.

5. to publish something such as a message or picture on a website or using social media to publish something such as a message or picture on a website or using social media