Post
Post verb - To assign to a place or position.
Usage example: the police are planning to post an officer outside the hospital room of the witness
Set is a synonym for post in place topic. In some cases you can use "Set" instead a verb "Post", when it comes to topics like establish, situate, put on duty.
How words are described
| old | old post | old set |
| long | long post | long set |
| specific | specific post | specific set |
| short | short post | short set |
| Other adjectives: right, certain, current, original, initial, single, small, actual, entire, main, new, final, next, double, last, latest, different, recent, previous. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- In Just a Gigolo, which is set in post-WWI Berlin, Paul, the protagonist gets a post-mortem conversion into the fledgling Nazi party, which had earlier tried and failed to recruit him when he's accidentally killed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Source: Post Mortem Conversion -
The Untochable by British writer Gerald Seymour takes place in post-war Bosnia, but contains numerous flashbacks set during the war.
Source: Useful Notes / The Yugoslav Wars -
In his final blog post "A Leave of Presence", he announced his retirement from the Chicago Sun-Times for health reasons and planned to pick a set of writers to take his place on his website.
Source: Creator / Roger Ebert
Cite this Source
Set and Post. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/post/set
Post & Set. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/post/set>.
Set or Post. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/post/set.
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