Definition of "postmaster-general" []

• The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet. (noun)

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• "The boat by which I was to leave Quebec was to sail on the afternoon of the day on which I visited Lorette, but was detained till the evening by the postmaster-general, when a heavy fog came on, which prevented its departure till the next morning."
• "Maybe Mr. Rosenblum is actually lobbying for the position of postmaster-general."
• "The man having been convicted, the postmaster-general was bound to regard him as guilty, and hesitated to allow a clerk to be absent so long on behalf of a man who was already in prison."