"post-office" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1835 February 17, Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, page 104",
          "text": "An embezzlement of government money to the extent of about Rs. 2,000 was discovered some time ago in the post-office here, between the baboo, mutsuddy and mohurrer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1842, Daniel Parish Kidder, Mormonism and the Mormons: A Historical View of the Rise and Progress of the Sect Self-styled Latter-Day Saints, Carlton & Lanahan",
          "text": "[…] that he and David Whitmer swore falsley, stole, cheated, lied, sold bogus money, (base coin,), and also stones and sand for bogus; that letters in the post-office had been opened, read, and destroyed; and that those same men were concerned with a gang of counterfeiters, coiners, and blacklegs.",
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        {
          "ref": "1845, Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Law of Promissory Notes and Guaranties of Notes and Checks on Banks and Bankers, page 388",
          "text": "In all cases of this sort, it will be sufficient, that a letter is put into the post-office early enough after the day of the dishonor of the Note to go by the next post, whether it be a bi-weekly, or tri-weekly, or a mere weekly conveyance, if it be the ordinary mode of communication.",
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        {
          "ref": "1906, Newell Meeker Calhoun, Litchfield County Sketches, page 134",
          "text": "Outside the door were a bed of fennel — meeting seed — and some rose bushes. Close by was the country store and post-office.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Eleanor Gates, Cupid, the Cow-Punch, page 48",
          "text": "Somehow, though, as the parson come 'long-side the post-office, most anybody wouldn't 'a' liked the way thinks looked. You could sorta smell somethin' explodey.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1910, United States Congressional Serial Set, volume 5592, page 4",
          "text": "A telepost is a dispatch of 50 words, between all points, for 25 cents, delivered at the post-office.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1917, James A. Cooper, Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper",
          "text": "Halfway down the hill, just beyond the First Church and the post-office, was the rambling, galleried old structure across the face of which, and high under its eaves, was painted the name \"Cardhaven Inn.\"",
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        "Archaic form of post office."
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1835 February 17, Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, page 104",
          "text": "An embezzlement of government money to the extent of about Rs. 2,000 was discovered some time ago in the post-office here, between the baboo, mutsuddy and mohurrer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1842, Daniel Parish Kidder, Mormonism and the Mormons: A Historical View of the Rise and Progress of the Sect Self-styled Latter-Day Saints, Carlton & Lanahan",
          "text": "[…] that he and David Whitmer swore falsley, stole, cheated, lied, sold bogus money, (base coin,), and also stones and sand for bogus; that letters in the post-office had been opened, read, and destroyed; and that those same men were concerned with a gang of counterfeiters, coiners, and blacklegs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1845, Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Law of Promissory Notes and Guaranties of Notes and Checks on Banks and Bankers, page 388",
          "text": "In all cases of this sort, it will be sufficient, that a letter is put into the post-office early enough after the day of the dishonor of the Note to go by the next post, whether it be a bi-weekly, or tri-weekly, or a mere weekly conveyance, if it be the ordinary mode of communication.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, Newell Meeker Calhoun, Litchfield County Sketches, page 134",
          "text": "Outside the door were a bed of fennel — meeting seed — and some rose bushes. Close by was the country store and post-office.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Eleanor Gates, Cupid, the Cow-Punch, page 48",
          "text": "Somehow, though, as the parson come 'long-side the post-office, most anybody wouldn't 'a' liked the way thinks looked. You could sorta smell somethin' explodey.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910, United States Congressional Serial Set, volume 5592, page 4",
          "text": "A telepost is a dispatch of 50 words, between all points, for 25 cents, delivered at the post-office.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1917, James A. Cooper, Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper",
          "text": "Halfway down the hill, just beyond the First Church and the post-office, was the rambling, galleried old structure across the face of which, and high under its eaves, was painted the name \"Cardhaven Inn.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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