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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 post·po·si·tion /ˌpos(t)pəˈzɪʃən, ˈpos(t)pəˌ/
 後置,後置辭

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Post·po·si·tion n.
 1. The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after. “The postposition of the nominative case to the verb.”
 2. A word or particle placed after, or at the end of, another word; -- distinguished from preposition.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 postposition
      n : (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element after
          another (as placing a modifier after the word that it
          modifies in a sentence or placing an affix after the base
          to which it is attached)