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poste: post office; mail, postal service/system
poste avancé: outpost
poste d'essence: petrol station, gas station
poste d'observation: observation post
poste d'écoute: listening post
poste de commandement: command post
poste de contrôle: checkpoint; control room
poste de police: police station
poste de quartier: neighbourhood station / district station / community station
poste de travail: workstation (area for a single worker); workstation (type of computer)
poste médical avancé: advanced medical post
poste à gaz: gas station
poste à souder: welder, welding machine
poste-frontière: borderpost (installation, situated on a border, that deals with customs, immigration, etc.)
poster: poster (A billboard to be posted on a public or private place)
poster: to post
poster: to post, (put in the) mail
postface: postface, postscript at the end of a book
postfacé: Having an epilogue or afterword
postfixé: postfix, reverse Polish
postglaciaire: postglacial
posthite: posthitis
posthomérique: post-Homeric
posthume: posthumous (taking place after someone's death)
posthumément: posthumously
posthypophyse: posthypophysis
postiche: toupee, hairpiece, wig; false moustache, false beard
postiche: artificial; false
postier: postman, postal worker
postiller: synonym of postillonner
postillon: postman (courier who rides post); postilion; a French-style hat worn by the postal workers; (drop of) spit, spittle, saliva (sprayed when speaking)
postillonner: to splutter (speak while spitting)
postillonneux: spluttery; spitty (of a voice, characterised by lots of spluttering or spitting)
postimplantatoire: post-implant
postimpressionnisme: postimpressionism
postmoderne: postmodernism; postmodern; postmodernist
postmodernisme: postmodernism
postmodernité: postmodernity
postnatal: postnatal
postnucléaire: postnuclear
postopératoire: postoperative
postorgasmique: postorgasmic
postposer: to postpose; to postpone
postposition: postposition
postpositionnel: postpositional
postprandial: postprandial
postromantique: postromantic
postscolaire: after-school
postscénium: postscenium
postsecondaire: postsecondary
postsynaptique: postsynaptic
postsynchronisation: dubbing (adding sound to a film)
postsynchroniser: to dub (add sound to a film)
postulant: applicant (person who applies for something); postulant (person seeking admission to a religious order)
postulat: postulate
postuler: to postulate (assume as true); to posit
postuler: to claim, to request, to ask for; to apply for
postulé: postulated
postural: postural
posture: posture, attitude; conduct, comportment