POSTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does posted mean? 

• POSTED (adjective)
  The adjective POSTED has 1 sense:

1. publicly displayed

  Familiarity information: POSTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POSTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Publicly displayed

Classified under:

Participial adjectives

Context example:

the posted speed limit

Participle:

post (publicize with, or as if with, a poster)

 Context examples 

Roberts says his event, "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All of Us", was posted as a joke.

(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)

Katrin Pfuhlmann, lead author of the study, described the effect in a statement posted on the center's official website.

(German scientists find potential treatment for obesity, Agência Brasil)

Is the information reviewed before it is posted?

(Evaluating Health Information, NIH: National Library of Medicine)

I shall write some letters home, and shall try to get them to have them posted.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The packet was posted on Thursday morning.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I posted it, and had nothing to do then, but wait, as patiently as I could, for the reply.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Laurie meanwhile posted off to comfort Amy, and told his story so well that Aunt March actually 'sniffed' herself, and never once said "I told you so".

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Winner of the men's division, Cherono, posted a time of 2:05:45.

(Kenya's Brigid Kosgei sets new world record at Chicago Marathon, Wikinews)

You remember how we posted to Newmarket before the races.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It may, however, have been written on Monday and only posted to-day.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)