reposting

Pluralrepostings (some meanings)

1. 1
   noununcountable

   The act of posting something again, especially sharing online content that has already appeared before.

   Like running the same advertisement again in a later edition of a newspaper.

   Her reposting of the charity appeal helped it reach thousands more people.

   Moderators discouraged the reposting of duplicate threads in the forum.

   Similarsharing

   Note

   An Internet word that can be counted. Each separate time material goes up again is one reposting, as in the monthly repostings of a newsgroup FAQ. Mark A. Tallman's Ghost Guns (2020) pairs it with reposters, the people who do it, when describing manuals that circulated again online. Unlike the gerund of the verb, the noun takes articles and plurals: a reposting, many repostings.

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle of repost.

   The intern is reposting last week's update across all the company channels.

   Volunteers were reposting flood warnings throughout the night.

   Note

   The -ing form does two jobs. As a participle it builds progressive tenses with be (is reposting, were reposting). As a gerund it names the action and can still take an object (reposting old updates wastes time). Once it takes a plural, repostings, it has become the countable noun. It can also carry the older meaning of repost: to post something up again.

3. 3
   nouncountable

   The act of assigning someone to a different post or station.

   Like a chess piece being moved to a different square on the board.

   His reposting to the regional headquarters meant relocating the entire family.

   The officer protested her sudden reposting to a remote garrison.

   Similartransfer, reassignment, redeployment, relocation

   Note

   Here post means a position, not a message. The word belongs to staffing, where foreign service officers and teachers are moved to new cities and schools. The preposition usually tells it apart from the online meaning: a reposting to somewhere is a transfer, while a reposting of something is usually shared content.

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