REPOST Definition & Meaning

repost

[ verb ree-pohst; noun ree-pohst ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

to reaffix or replace (a notice, bulletin, sign, etc.):
All my “lost dog” signs got blown away in the storm, so I’ve reposted them around town.
Digital Technology.
1. to resubmit (an online message, text, or image, often one originated by another user) to a message board, mailing list, website, or social media site:
  This blog post was originally published several years ago, but it's such useful information that we like to repost it every winter.
2. to submit (an existing online message, text, or image, often one originated by another user) to a different message board, electronic mailing list, website, or social media site:
  You may download the photos for your own collection, but you may not repost them to another website.

verb (used without object)

Digital Technology.
1. to resubmit an online message, text, or image to a message board, mailing list, website, or social media site, often one originated by another user:
  About twelve hours of posts may have been deleted, so check back over the last day and repost if you lost a post or two.
2. to submit an existing online message, text, or image to another message board, mailing list, website, or social media site:
  Please feel free to repost as widely as you can.

noun

Digital Technology. an online message, image, article, etc., that has been posted multiple times or on multiple message boards, mailing lists, websites, or social media sites:
This is a repost corrected for typos, punctuation, spelling, and some grammatical issues.
I’m pretty sure this article is a repost of something from a few years ago.

repost

[ ree-pohst ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used without object)

to reassign to a new job or location:
To avoid the scandal, he was quickly reposted to London, far away from Washington.
Employees may be reposted to other departments depending on the needs of the organization.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of repost¹

re- ( def ) + post ¹( def )

Origin of repost²

First recorded in 1715–25; re- ( def ) + post ²( def )

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Example Sentences

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Musk even went so far on Thursday to repost an X user who claimed, "Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did," implying that everyday people were working on their own against the will of their dictators.

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“You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism,” a great piece by Janus Rose published just this week on 404 Media, made me realize that my instinct to dunk on things or reflexively repost Time covers and other low-hanging fruit means diddly squat.

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But in a repost and exchange with tech financier Paul Graham on Sunday, Musk admitted that his platform throttles posts with links in them.

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While the platform looked a lot like the old Twitter, your Bluesky feed is a reverse chronological timeline of posts with photos, videos and links that you can also like and repost.

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People using the platform can post, comment, repost and like their favourite things.

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