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- noun Plural form of
postoffice .
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Examples
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The use of plurals in this context is correct inasmuch as the sentence calls for cessation of past and possible future moves into postoffices and schools.
JMRL Rejects Move to Jefferson School at cvillenews.com 2004
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All Email is sent via servers to other servers, kinda like postoffices.
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They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, postoffices, landoffices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.
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It was the largest town in the county during the Revolution, and in 1789 was one of the seven postoffices in the state; but its glory has departed and it is now a pleasant village living in its memories of the past.
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Not that she had any passengers or freight for Brandon perhaps, or Brandon for her, but because all these river estates are postoffices and the Pocahontas carries the river mail.
Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins
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These have been piled up in the postoffices and we have never received a return of the stamps affixed for mailing.
100\%: the Story of a Patriot Upton Sinclair 1923
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Of postoffices alone there are fully a hundred embodying Elk; counting in rivers, lakes, creeks, mountains and valleys, the map of the United States probably shows at least twice as many such names.
Chapter 10. Proper Names in America. 3. Geographical Names Henry Louis 1921
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There are five postoffices named Aaron, two named Abraham, two named Job, and a town and a lake names Moses.
Chapter 10. Proper Names in America. 3. Geographical Names Henry Louis 1921
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There are thirty-five postoffices whose names embody the word prairie, several of them, e. g.,
Chapter 10. Proper Names in America. 3. Geographical Names Henry Louis 1921
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We can go to any of the 75,000 postoffices in this country and be entirely sure we will be understood, whether we want to buy a stamp or borrow a match.
Chapter 1. Introductory. 5. The General Character of American English Henry Louis 1921
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