pos

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɒz/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /pɔz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɑz/

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pos (comparative more pos, superlative most pos)

1. (UK, slang) Clipping of positive.

   I'm not absolutely pos on that, sir.

2. (slang) Clipping of HIV positive.
3. Clipping of possessive.

• pos pron

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pəʊz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /poʊz/

pos

1. plural of po

• OPS, OPS+, OPs, PSO, S.O.P., SOP, ops, sop

pos

1. plural of po

pos

1. second-person singular present indicative of poñer

pos

1. second-person singular present indicative of pór

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pos

1. singular imperative of posen

Borrowed from English post.

• IPA^(key): /pʊs/

pos

1. mail
2. post, station

Borrowed from Latin post (with the t dropped so not to interfere with posto (“postal service, post, mail”)), Russian после (posle).

• IPA^(key): /pos/, /pɔs/

pos

1. after

   Ni drinkis kelka biri pos la ludo.

   We had a few beers after the game.

• posa (“after”)
• pose (“then, afterwards”)
• depos (“since, afterward”)
  • depose (“since, from that time”)
• pos-

From Dutch post (“post”), from Middle French poste, from Italian posta, posto, from Latin postus, from positus. Cognate to Malay pos.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɔs]
• Hyphenation: pos

pos (plural pos-pos, first-person possessive posku, second-person possessive posmu, third-person possessive posnya)

1. mail
2. post, station
3. (colloquial) meeting place
4. (accounting) budget

• “pos” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From English post. Cognate to Indonesian pos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpos/, [ˈpos]

pos (Jawi spelling ڤوس, plural pos-pos, informal 1st possessive posku, 2nd possessive posmu, 3rd possessive posnya)

1. mail

   Synonym: (uncommon, only in compounds) mel

2. post (assigned station or appointed position in an organization)

• “pos” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

pos

1. Obsolete spelling of pôs

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• IPA^(key): /ˈpos/ [ˈpos]
• Rhymes: -os
• Syllabification: pos

pos

1. (Latin America) Alternative spelling of pues

pos

1. (archaic) after, behind

pos m (uncountable)

1. Only used in en pos de (“in pursuit of”)

• “pos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From Proto-Slavic *pьsъ.

pos m animal

1. dog

• “pos” in Soblex

pos

1. after, behind

From Proto-Hmong *-boᴮ (“thorn”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /pɒ˩/

pos

1. thorn

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 233.
• Sue Murphy Mote, Hmong and American: Stories of Transition to a Strange Land →ISBN, 2004)