ˈpost ˈentry, ˈpost-entry
[post- A. 1 b.]
1. A subsequent or late entry.
| 1888 Pall Mall G. 31 May 10/2 The entries..show..a decrease on last year's total of 122, which may possibly be made up yet by post entries. 1888 Daily News 9 July 5/8 Post entries have brought the number of probable competitors up to something more than the average. |
2. spec. a. An additional or supplemental entry, in the manifest of a vessel, of an item or items of dutiable merchandise omitted at the time of the entry of the vessel at the custom-house. The warrant issued on this is a post-warrant.
| 1662 Order Ho. Comm. as to Customs (1663) 14 Post-Entries Inward to passe without Fee under five shillings. 1725 Lond. Gaz. No. 6433/1 They..have been..permitted to make Post-Entries thereof with the Officer of Excise. 1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (1821) 18 When the Post Warrant is received, the date and number of each Post Entry must be inserted. 1832–52 M{supc}Culloch Dict. Comm. 1047 When goods are weighed or measured, and the merchant has got an account thereof at the Custom-house, and finds his entry, already made, too small, he must make a post or additional entry for the surplusage, in the same manner as the first was done... A merchant is always in time, prior to the clearing of the vessel, to make his post. |
b. A subsequent entry in book-keeping.
| 1798 Bay Amer. Law Rep. (1809) I. 33 No entry was made..except a post entry, some time afterwards. 1847 Webster, Post-entry..2. In book-keeping, an additional or subsequent entry. |