POSTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does posting mean? 

• POSTING (noun)
  The noun POSTING has 3 senses:

1. a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement

2. (bookkeeping) a listing on the company's records

3. the transmission of a letter

  Familiarity information: POSTING used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POSTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sign posted in a public place as an advertisement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

bill; card; notice; placard; poster; posting

Context example:

a poster advertised the coming attractions

Hypernyms ("posting" is a kind of...):

sign (a public display of a message)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "posting"):

show bill; show card; theatrical poster (a poster advertising a show or play)

flash card; flashcard (a card with words or numbers or pictures that is flashed to a class by the teacher)

Derivation:

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

post (place so as to be noticed)

post (affix in a public place or for public notice)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(bookkeeping) a listing on the company's records

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

the posting was made in the cash account

Hypernyms ("posting" is a kind of...):

list; listing (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))

Domain category:

bookkeeping; clerking (the activity of recording business transactions)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The transmission of a letter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

mailing; posting

Context example:

the postmark indicates the time of mailing

Hypernyms ("posting" is a kind of...):

transmission; transmittal; transmitting (the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted)

Derivation:

post (cause to be directed or transmitted to another place)

 Context examples 

I was engaged after dinner in my study posting up my books, which, through press of other work and the many visits to Lucy, had fallen sadly into arrear.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

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.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“His Grace is not in the habit of posting letters himself,” said he.

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

This, then, is his new scheme of evil: that he will allow others to see me, as they think, so that he may both leave evidence that I have been seen in the towns or villages posting my own letters, and that any wickedness which he may do shall by the local people be attributed to me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)