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Meaning of posthouse | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A company that carries out post-production.
  2. A house at a staging post: an inn with a stable where relays of horses could be changed, for stagecoaches and/or the mails.
    historical
  3. A building for distributing mail; a post office.
    obsolete

Examples

“Slow motion, fades, wipes, and text — once only affordable for major broadcasters and posthouses — now allowed DIY video producers a more polished, professional look.”
“At each mile there are little guardhouses, where a policeman is stationed; and there is a wooden gong, which by means of concerted signals may be made to convey information over the country with great rapidity. About every six or seven miles is the post-house, where the horses are changed as quickly as were those of the mail in the old coaching days in England.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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