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PRONUNCIATION OF FIELD POST OFFICE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FIELD POST OFFICE

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Field post office is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FIELD POST OFFICE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Field post office

A Field Post Office is a post office set up during time of war or when a military unit is on manoeuvres. It is set up 'in the field', hence the name, however, FPOs may be on land or at sea. Their use pre-dates the introduction of postage stamps.

Definition of field post office in the English dictionary

The definition of field post office in the dictionary is a place to which mail intended for military units in the field is sent to be sorted and forwarded FPO.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FIELD POST OFFICE

field marshal
field mouse
field mushroom
field of fire
field of force
field of honour
field of view
field of vision
field officer
field poppy
field rank
field research
field sales force
field service
field spaniel
field sports
field strength
field study
field term
field test

WORDS THAT END LIKE FIELD POST OFFICE

back office
back-office
box office
front office
head office
head post office
Home Office
in office
main office
office
out of office
Oval Office
post office
press office
public prosecutor´s office
registered office
sacrifice
suffice
the office
the Oval Office
the Stationery Office

Synonyms and antonyms of field post office in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «field post office» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FIELD POST OFFICE

Find out the translation of field post office to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of field post office from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «field post office» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

外地邮局
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

estafeta de correos
570 millions of speakers

English

field post office
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

क्षेत्र डाकघर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مكتب البريد الميداني
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

почта поле
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

campo correios
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্ষেত্র পোস্ট অফিস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bureau de poste sur le terrain
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pejabat pos lapangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Feldpostamt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

フィールド郵便局
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

필드 우체국
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kantor pos lapangan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bài lĩnh vực văn phòng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கள அஞ்சல் அலுவலகம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फील्ड पोस्ट ऑफिस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Alan postane
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

campo ufficio postale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Pole poczta
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пошта поле
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

oficiu poștal câmp
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πεδίο ταχυδρομείο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gebied poskantoor
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fält postkontor
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

feltet postkontor
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of field post office

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FIELD POST OFFICE»

The term «field post office» is regularly used and occupies the 72.490 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FIELD POST OFFICE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about field post office

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FIELD POST OFFICE»

Discover the use of field post office in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to field post office and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Encyclopedia of Ephemera: A Guide to the Fragmentary ...
A base Army Post Office at Cape Town handled most of the soldiers' mail and field post office units accompanied troops in action. Letters bear dated and numbered cancellations with 'Field Post Office: British Army South Africa' or 'Army Post ...
Maurice Rickards, Michael Twyman, 2000
2
Aspects of the History of Slovene Karst (1545–2008)
At Christmas 1915 two special military field post office postmarks were used, presumably at the underground post office – “K. u. k. Grottenfeldpostamt 81. Kriegsweihnachten 1915.” (Imperial and Royal Cave Field Post Office 81. War Christmas ...
Trevor R. Shaw, 2010
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Tobruk 1941: Rommel's Opening Move
... 33rd Butchery Company 33rd Military Police Troop; 33rd Field Post Office 33rd Field Replacement Battalion From August: 1. 2001h Rifle Regiment controlled 15th Motorcycle Battalion and 2nd Machine-Gun Battalion in 15th Panzer Division.
‎2001
4
Historic McLennan County: An Illustrated History
... Nicholas William Battle Blackland Village Location: Blackland Air Field Post Office Operations: Until 1950s Other: Barracks converted to Veteran housing Bishop Location: Southwest, 6 miles northwest of Moody Post Office Operations: Dec.
Sharon Bracken, 2010
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Alamein
... von Randow Divisional HQ and Signals Battalion; 531st Bakery Company; 309th Field Police Troop [military police]; 735th Field Post Office 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion 5th Panzer Regiment [2 battalions] 1 04th Panzergrenadier Regiment ...
Jon Latimer, 2002
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Kriegsprache:
... Oberst Feldpostamtsrat {m} A Beamten position with an assimilated rank of Oberstleutnant Feldpostassistent Beamten {m} Field post office assistant, aBeamten position with an assimilated senior NCO rank Feldpostbetreibassistent {m} Field ...
Thomas Houlihan, 2009
7
Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States
... in the discretion of the Postmaster General, irrespective of the branch of the Postal Service in which the clerk is employed prior to the transfer. That is to say, the employee may be a field post office clerk, a railway postal clerk, a clerk in the  ...
United States. General Accounting Office, 1949
8
On Common Ground: The Ongoing Story of the Commons in ...
camp used the cancellation “Field Post Office Niagara Camp Ont” plus date. The YMCA operated large tents on both Commons. There souvenirs, various amusements, sports, games, reading room, and even movies were available.31 ...
Richard D. Merritt, 2012
9
Bully Beef and Balderdash
... Field Cash office Postal Australian Army Post office, Boulogne 1st–24th Field Post office (FPo) Australian Army Post office, Rouen 1st–4th Army Post office ( APo) Records Australian Section, 3rd Echelon, BeF Canadian Section, 3rd echelon, ...
Graham Wilson, 2012
10
G P O
... however small, in all the oversea armies wherever they were serving, and each bag was given a code label denoting the field post office or other destination to which it was to be forwarded. In principle the distribution, after the arrival of the ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FIELD POST OFFICE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term field post office is used in the context of the following news items.
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Daily Telegraph June 12 1915
The fun and games of running the army's field post office is detailed on page 7, not helped by calling the force sent to fight the British ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
2
Toast of the Coast
... take a break from helping to sort donated food during the National Letter Carriers' Food Drive at the Page Field Post Office in Fort Myers. «The News-Press, Jun 15»
3
The death of Love Field was greatly exaggerated
Even the Love Field post office closed. A time capsule - dedicated 42 years ago at Love - crystalized that moment in time. It was recently ... «WFAA, Apr 15»
4
Army organizes welfare activities on a run up of army day 2015
... they were apprised of the latest schemes available with J & K Bank, SBI, Ex Servicemen Contributory Health Schemes, Field Post Office etc. «Scoop News, Jan 15»
5
Medical camp marks 67th Army Day
... of the latest schemes available with J&K Bank, State Bank of India, ex-servicemen contributory health schemes and the field post office. «Chandigarh Tribune, Jan 15»
6
Ironbridge Field Post Office sheds light on Great War mail service
To mark the importance of the service during the conflict between 1914 and 198, a model of a field post office has been set up at Coalbrookdale ... «shropshirestar.com, Oct 14»
7
Local legacy of The Great War remembered on Armistice Day
On September 20th, 1916, Mrs Janet Manson of Paddock Hall Cottage, Linlithgow, received a letter with a British Field Post Office cancellation. «Linlithgow Journal & Gazette, Oct 14»
8
Letters from beyond the grave show of war time love
Although the contents of the envelope have been lost, the letter was sent via the Western Front's Field Post Office, to Doris Birch, who was living ... «shropshirestar.com, Aug 14»
9
Great War Stamps Raise Money for Forces Charities
The commemorative cover includes an image of a Field Post Office in France during WWI. Each cover comes complete with an A4 information ... «Forces TV, Jul 14»
10
BMTC Launches Trunk Services to Connect Suburbs
... Kadugodi, Hope Farm, White Field Post Office, Varthur Kodi, Varthur, Gunjooru, Heggondanahalli, Dommasandra, Yamare and Sompura. «The New Indian Express, Mar 14»

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