Posted

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Post \Post\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Posted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Posting}.]
     1. To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of
        affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice;
        to post playbills.
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     Note: Formerly, a large post was erected before the sheriff's
           office, or in some public place, upon which legal
           notices were displayed. This way of advertisement has
           not entirely gone of use.
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     2. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise
        opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to
        post one for cowardice.
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              On pain of being posted to your sorrow
              Fail not, at four, to meet me.        --Granville.
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     3. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or
        the like.
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     4. To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a
        sentinel. "It might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant,
        . . . or to get him posted." --De Quincey.
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     5. (Bookkeeping) To carry, as an account, from the journal to
        the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as
        accounts, to the ledger.
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              You have not posted your books these ten years.
                                                    --Arbuthnot.
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     6. To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a
        letter.
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     7. To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted
        with the details of a subject; -- often with up.
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              Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature
              of the day.                           --Lond. Sat.
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     {To post off}, to put off; to delay. [Obs.] "Why did I,
        venturously, post off so great a business?" --Baxter.
  
     {To post over}, to hurry over. [Obs.] --Fuller.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  posted
       adj : publicly announced; "the posted speed limit"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "posted":
     abreast of, as earnest, assigned, at stake, au courant, booked,
     briefed, deployed, deposited, documented, down, educated,
     embosomed, emplaced, enlightened, enrolled, ensconced, entered,
     established, filed, fixed, in hock, in pawn, indexed, informed,
     inscribed, installed, instructed, legal, located, logged, minuted,
     of record, official, on deposit, on file, on record, on the books,
     pawned, placed, planted, pledged, positioned, primed, put up,
     recorded, registered, schooled, seated, set, settled, situate,
     situated, spotted, staked, stationed, taught, trained, up on,
     up the spout, up-to-date, versed, well-versed, written down