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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

POSTING, ppr. Setting up on a post; exposing the name or character to reproach by public advertisement.
1. Placing; stationing.
2. Transferring accounts to a ledger.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement; "a poster advertised the coming attractions" [syn: poster, posting, placard, notice, bill, card]
2: (bookkeeping) a listing on the company's records; "the posting was made in the cash account"
3: the transmission of a letter; "the postmark indicates the time of mailing" [syn: mailing, posting]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: ⁴post Date: 1682 1. the act of transferring an entry or item from a book of original entry to the proper account in a ledger 2. the record in a ledger account resulting from the transfer of an entry or item from a book of original entry II. noun Etymology: ⁷post Date: 1880 appointment to a post or a command III. noun Etymology: ²post Date: 1991 ³ ; post 4

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Posting Post"ing, n. 1. The act of traveling post. 2. (Bookkeeping) The act of transferring an account, as from the journal to the ledger. Posting house, a post house.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 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. 2. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice. On pain of being posted to your sorrow Fail not, at four, to meet me. --Granville. 3. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like. 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. 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. You have not posted your books these ten years. --Arbuthnot. 6. To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter. 7. To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; -- often with up. Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day. --Lond. Sat. Rev. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(postings) 1. If you get a posting to a different town or country, your employers send you to work there, usually for several years. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use assignment) He was rewarded with a posting to New York... N-COUNT: with supp, oft N to n see also post 2. If a member of an armed force gets a posting to a particular place, they are sent to live and work there for a period. ...awaiting his posting to a field ambulance corps in early 1941. N-COUNT: oft with supp, oft N to n 3. A posting is a message that is placed on the Internet, for example on a bulletin board or website, for everyone to read. (COMPUTING) Postings on the Internet can be accessed from anywhere in the world. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

allocation, appointment, assignment, booking, cataloging, chronicling, collocation, deployment, deposit, deposition, designation, disposition, emplacement, enlistment, enrollment, entering, entry, impanelment, indexing, inscribing, inscription, insertion, inventorying, lading, listing, loading, localization, locating, location, logging, matriculation, naming, nomination, ordainment, ordination, packing, pinpointing, placement, placing, positioning, putting, record keeping, recordation, recording, register, registration, registry, reposition, selection, situation, spotting, stationing, storage, stowage, tabbing, tabulation, transferral