posting

1. 1.

   a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement

   “a poster advertised the coming attractions”

   Synonymsposterplacardnoticebillcard

   Broadersign

   Narrowershow billflash card
2. 2.

   (bookkeeping) a listing on the company's records

   “the posting was made in the cash account”

   Broaderlist

   bookkeeping

3. 3.

   the transmission of a letter

   “the postmark indicates the time of mailing”

   Synonymsmailing

   Broadertransmission

Other forms of posting

plural

postings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about posting

What does posting mean?

posting means "a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in posting?

posting has 2 syllables: po-sting. The stress falls on "po". In IPA it is /ˈpoʊstɪŋ/.

What is another word for posting?

Close synonyms include poster, placard, notice, bill, card. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is posting a common word?

posting is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.