Posthouse
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A company that carries out post-production.
"Slow motion, fades, wipes, and text — once only affordable for major broadcasters and posthouses — now allowed DIY video producers a more polished, professional look."
- 2 an inn for exchanging post horses and accommodating riders wordnet
- 3 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
"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."
- 4 A building for distributing mail; a post office. obsolete
Example
More 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."
Etymology
From post + house.
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