postmaster general

1. 1.

   the official in charge of the national postal service

   Broaderofficial

Questions about postmaster general

What does postmaster general mean?

postmaster general means "the official in charge of the national postal service".

Is postmaster general a common word?

postmaster general is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.