Post
Post noun - A specific task with which a person or group is charged.
Usage example: selling lemonade was my post at the church fair
Work
Work noun - The action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing exists.
Usage example: the work of a movie director is to tell a story through a series of striking images
Post and work are semantically related in employment topic. Sometimes you can use "Post" instead a noun "Work".
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| old | old post | old work |
| short | short post | short work |
| regular | regular post | regular work |
| original | original post | original work |
| Other adjectives: single, popular, actual, entire, real, bad, main, important, new, early, major, final, later, next, last, latest, recent, earlier, previous. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Post Modern: As is common with Winterbottom's work as a whole (but especially a lot of his work with Coogan and, to a lesser extent, Brydon).
Source: Series / The Trip -
Same Language Dub: There was a lot of post-production work done for Gina Carano's performance due to her own admitted shortcomings as an actor.
Source: Film / Haywire - Notably, the Illusive Man didn't bother installing any real Restraining Bolts, trusting instead in Shepard's gratitude and their mutual goals to ensure that she would work for him post-resurrection.
Source: Reforged into a Minion
Cite this Source
Work and Post. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/post/work
Post & Work. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/post/work>.
Work or Post. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/post/work.
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