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Post Exchange

Definition: Post Exchange

Post Exchange

Noun

1. A commissary on a United States Army post.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Post Exchange

Specialty definitions using "post exchange": CUSTOMER-SERVICE CLERK, customer-service specialist, post exchange. (references)

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Photo Album: Post Exchange

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U.S. Army, Tripler General Hospital, Honolulu, Hawaii. : Exterior view of post exchange. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[A Russian "Post Exchange"]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Air Corps Training facility, Randolph Field, Tex. Post exchange marketplace. Credit: Library of Congress.

Greenville, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Group of servicemen having a beer in the post exchange. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Modern Translation: Post Exchange

Language Translations for "post exchange"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

magasin de l'armée. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kantin (canteen, mess, mess hall, naffy, PX, tommy), helyőrségi üzlet (PX). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

'保 (canteen). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しゅほ (canteen). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ostpay exchangeay

   

Russian 

  

военный магазин (army post exchange). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cantina (buffet, canteen, cantina). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ordu pazarı, askeri kantin (commissary). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Post Exchange

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-h-n-o-p-s-t-x"

-2 letters: toxaphenes.

-3 letters: apotheces, cenotaphs, conepates, exchanges, heptagons, pathogens, toxaphene.

-4 letters: acetones, apothece, capstone, cathexes, cenotaph, cheapens, cheapest, coagents, cognates, conepate, exchange, exsecant, geotaxes, haptenes, heptagon, heptanes, hexagons, notecase, opencast, panoches, pathogen, penoches, peonages, phaetons, phenates, phonates, phosgene, potences, potheens, sheepcot, stanhope, thenages.

-5 letters: acetone, acetose, achenes, apogees, capotes, cenotes, cetanes, changes, chasten, cheapen, cheapos.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Post Exchange


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 6F 73 74      45 78 63 68 61 6E 67 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01101111 01110011 01110100 00100000 01000101 01111000 01100011 01101000 01100001 01101110 01100111 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#111 &#115 &#116 &#32 &#69 &#120 &#99 &#104 &#97 &#110 &#103 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 0073 0074      0045 0078 0063 0068 0061 006E 0067 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5081858623990697467807371

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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