What's the difference between portionist and postmaster?
Portionist
Definition:
(n.) A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster.
(n.) One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars.
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Postmaster
Definition:
(n.) One who has charge of a station for the accommodation of travelers; one who supplies post horses.
(n.) One who has charge of a post office, and the distribution and forwarding of mails.
Example Sentences:
(1) Accordingly a number of valentines, which had been sent this year to country postmasters, at a distance from the place where they were written, with a request that they might be posted at those remote offices, have been sent to the Dead-letter office , and thence to the parties for whom they were destined, accompanied with a statement showing where the valentines were written, and the means that had been taken to elude detection.
(2) Sub Postmaster, Mowden Park Post Office, Darlington.
(3) In 1952, after discovering the interception of his mail, Hilton complained to his local postmaster.
(4) Dense crowds of spectators lined the route taken by the procession, which was witnessed from the Grand Stand at the Fifth Avenue Hotel by President Cleveland; Mr. Bayard, Secretary of State; Mr. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy; Mr. Vilas, Postmaster General; Mr. Lamar, Secretary of the Interior; General Sheridan, Commander in Chief of the United States army; M. Bartholdi, M. de Lesseps, Admiral Juarez, and the other French guests, as well as by other distinguished persons.
(5) The postmaster general, in response to a question in parliament about the future of broadcasting in April 1922, responded that “it would be impossible to have a large number of firms broadcasting.
(6) Post Office Ltd has to bridge a gap of around £37m in its crown network (the post offices owned and run by Post Office Ltd rather than by the independent sub-postmasters) and to do this it has embarked on a further cost-cutting exercise.
(7) Many people would argue that post offices are ethical to some degree, in that they are very much at the heart of local communities, and the accounts provide income for sub-postmasters.
(8) Sub-postmasters in the 11,500 post office branches are having a horrible time – their income has dropped by up to a third in the last five years.
(9) 7.59am BST George Thomson , general secretary of the National Federation of Sub-Postmasters, has also heavily criticised the plan: I am extremely disappointed and concerned that the Government is pressing ahead with a plan that will undoubtedly jeopardise the future of thousands of post offices.
(10) However, the National Federation of Sub-Postmasters (NFSP) has previously called for a halt in the sale until safeguards are put in place to protect post offices.
(11) Postmasters are now prohibited from aiding any attempt to conceal from those to whom letters are addressed the knowledge of the place where they originate; which knowledge is, under ordinary circumstances, obtainable from the post-mark.
(12) That said, post offices are very much at the heart of local communities, and a spokesman says the accounts will help generate increased income to sub-postmasters, thereby supporting the financial future of branches across the country.
(13) "This is an area of outstanding natural beauty, so I can't see how they're getting away with it," says Compton Martin's sub-postmaster, Ray Stewart, who runs a post office that is almost surreally tiny.