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postwar

[ pohst-wawr ]

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a period following a war:

    postwar problems; postwar removal of rationing.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of postwar1

First recorded in 1905–10; post- + war 1

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Example Sentences

Unlike Brunner, Remer was itinerant, and spent much time in that other nest of postwar Nazis—Cairo.

Spitz became a well-known figure in early postwar society circles.

Nonetheless, files continued to fill with damaging information as postwar debriefings proceeded.

After the postwar disintegration of the British Empire, Scots curiously disassociated themselves with the period altogether.

The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit by Thomas J. Sugrue (1996).

The key to service in the postwar Navy was acceptance into the Regular Navy.

No such change was evident in the Navy's postwar racial policy.

As these wore out or became obsolete, nearly all items were eventually replaced by postwar models.

The postwar manpower retrenchments common to all Regular Army units further reduced the size of the remaining black units.

These legal distinctions would become more important as the Navy's racial policy evolved in the postwar period.

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