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Webster 1913 Edition
Postmaster
Post′masˊter
,Noun.
1.
One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travelers; one who supplies post horses.
2.
One who has charge of a post office, and the distribution and forwarding of mails.
Webster 1828 Edition
Postmaster
POSTMASTER
,Noun.
Postmaster-general, is the chief officer of the post-office department, whose duty is to make contracts for the conveyance of the public mails and see that they are executed, and who receives the moneys arising from the postage of letters, pays the expenses, keeps the accounts of the office, and superintends the whole department.
Definition 2024
postmaster
postmaster
See also: pöstmȧster
English
Noun
postmaster (plural postmasters)
- The head of a post office.
- (Internet) The administrator of an electronic mail system.
- (Britain) A kind of scholar at Merton College, Oxford; portionist.
- (archaic) One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travellers; one who supplies post horses.
Derived terms
Translations
head of a post office
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