Posting

Part of speech: noun, verb

Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊstɪŋ/

Definitions

1. The act of sending a letter or parcel through the mail ; the assignment of someone to a specific job or location ; the publication of notices or information for public view
2. Delivering mail to an address or placing something physically somewhere ; the placement of personnel, usually in a work context ; making information available publicly, such as online or on a board
3. Sending items via postal service or setting something in a particular place ; assigning an individual a role or station, often temporarily ; publicly sharing information, announcements, or job listings

Etymology: The verb "post" in its sense of sending mail traces back to a fixed upright object. Its ancestor, Latin "postis," meant a door-post or doorpost, and that same pillar sense passed into English as Old English "post," meaning a pillar or door-post. The mail sense came by a different route: Middle French "poste" and Italian "posta" meant a stopping-place where horses were changed for travelling couriers, and the idea of an official relay of riders eventually became the system that carried letters. So the everyday word for dispatching a letter is, underneath, a story about stations along a road. Someone "posted" a notice by pinning it to a post, which explains the public-notice sense, while the job-assignment sense follows the idea of a person being placed at a station. The "-ing" ending simply turns the verb into a noun for each of these acts.

Synonyms: mailing, sending, dispatching, delivering, transmitting

Antonyms: withholding, retaining, keeping, saving, hoarding