(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.
Traveller
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I hope this movement will continue and spread for it has within itself the power to stand up to fascism, be victorious in the face of extremism and say no to oppressive political powers everywhere.” Appearing via videolink from Tehran, and joined by London mayor Sadiq Khan and Palme d’Or winner Mike Leigh, Farhadi said: “We are all citizens of the world and I will endeavour to protect and spread this unity.” The London screening of The Salesman on Sunday evening wasintended to be a show of unity and strength against Trump’s travel ban, which attempted to block arrivals in the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen.
(2) MI6 introduced him to the Spanish intelligence service and in 2006 he travelled to Madrid.
(3) Younge, a former head of US cable network the Travel Channel, succeeded Peter Salmon in the role last year.
(4) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
(5) Thirty-six dogs were seropositive, 28 of which had not traveled to endemic areas.
(6) The findings provide additional evidence that, for at least some cases, the likelihood of a physician's admitting a patient to the hospital is influenced by the patient's living arrangements, travel time to the physician's office, and the extent to which medical care would cause a financial hardship for the patient.
(7) Travel around Fukushima today and there is little evidence of disaster or trauma.
(8) Pulse-chase experiments showed that the ornithine transcarbamylase precursor and the thiolase traveled from the cytosol to the mitochondria with half-lives of less than 5 min, whereas the three fusion proteins traveled with half-lives of 10-15 min.
(9) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
(10) For months, more than 170,000 mainly Syrian refugees travelling north from Greece have used Hungary as a thoroughfare to the safety of northern and western Europe.
(11) Ultimate nonsurvivors of ICU admission (36 per cent) had shorter out-of-hospital times, shorter travel distances, and increased interventional support, as assessed by the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System applied over the telephone and prior to departure at the referring hospital.
(12) Routine vaccination of travellers to endemic areas cannot be recommended; however, for people travelling to regions with a high transmission rate vaccination should be considered.
(13) As travelling is generally increasing, this disease might be encountered more frequently also in Europe.
(14) Manchester United 3-1 Barcelona | match report Read more While, according to Louis van Gaal , Rojo was not on the flight because of an issue with his travel documents, the manager was unsure why Di María had failed to board the plane.
(15) Most cases of typhoid fever in the United States occur in international travelers, with the greatest risk associated with travel to Peru, India, Pakistan, and Chile.
(16) He knows polymer notes from travels in Australia, where they were first introduced in 1988, and he wants Britain to "move with the times" too.
(17) It won't be worth putting away his travel bags after returning from Perth as the G20 summit in Cannes, France, beckons.
(18) In a triple tier configuration, females concentrated 66% of their travel on the top tier.
(19) After filming, he stayed on in the Middle East for several weeks to travel.
(20) The findings suggest that health planning could be considerably enhanced by a better understanding of patient preferences for medical care travel behavior, the origins of these preferences, and their relationship to the use of available medical care opportunities.