poster
1a placard or bill posted or intended for posting in a public place, as for advertising.
a large print of a painting, photograph, etc., used to decorate a wall: posters of street scenes.
a person who posts bills, placards, etc.
Digital Technology. a person who posts or submits an online message to a message board: The previous poster in this thread was off-topic.
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Archaic. a person who travels rapidly.
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How to use poster in a sentence
Selin can’t pretend that she knows what a poster of Einstein means to every American college student because she knows the same poster means something different in Turkey.
The true love story in Elif Batuman’s The Idiot is a love affair with language | Constance Grady | September 11, 2020 | VoxIt remains to be seen how Nreal will live up to its promise, secure users at scale and move beyond being a mere poster child for tech giants’ mixed reality ambitions.
Qualcomm-powered Chinese XR startup Nreal raises $40 million | Rita Liao | September 4, 2020 | TechCrunchWhen we talk about mental health in the workplace, it’s no longer enough to have HR put up a few posters and host occasional awareness-raising events — and this is especially so given the current pandemic.
Deep Dive: How companies and their employees are facing the future of work | Digiday | September 1, 2020 | DigidayYou’re going to see mass opportunity for fraud, because that is the model that is a poster child for what they want to bring to other states.
A hyena “would just go up to a cub and grab it by the skull and crush it,” says Brown, who presented the work in a poster at the Ecological Society of America’s 2020 meeting held virtually the week of August 3.
“EOTS is a poster child for one of the ills of the acquisition process,” the official said.
Newest U.S. Stealth Fighter ‘10 Years Behind’ Older Jets | Dave Majumdar | December 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut by the time a critical wanted poster sent via fax arrived, more than two hours elapsed.
Alleged Cop Killer Ismaaiyl Brinsley Had a Death Wish | M.L. Nestel | December 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBefore I could apologize to his mother he ran back out to the living room with a poster of his dad and opened it up for me to see.
The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left Behind | Brin-Jonathan Butler | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey have made Keystone XL the poster child of their climate-change efforts.
A life-sized poster of Par Gyi greeted guests at the entrance.
Hope and Change? Burma Kills a Journalist Before Obama Arrives | Joshua Carroll | November 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSitting on the edge of the huge curtained four-poster bed, he ponders on the events of the evening.
Uncanny Tales | VariousThere was still money in her purse, and her next temptation presented itself in the shape of a matinee poster.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinThe director may consider the performance as an animated poster which moves rapidly from design to design.
Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays | VariousAlso, one boomed and boosted his own particular emotions, celebrating their merits in the language of the circus-poster.
Love's Pilgrimage | Upton SinclairThe name "Students' Hostel," written on a large poster placed at the gate, attracted my attention and I rang the doorbell.
Ways of War and Peace | Delia Austrian
British Dictionary definitions for poster
/ (ˈpəʊstə) /
a large printed picture, used for decoration
a placard or bill posted in a public place as an advertisement
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