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ˈafter-war
[after- 1.]
The period after a war; post-war. Used esp. attrib. or quasi-adj.
1919A. A. Milne First Plays 113 The most suitable career for a young man in after-war conditions. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Sept. 694/3 The numerous shady railroad flotations of the after-war period. 1939‘G. Orwell’ Coming up for Air iii. i. 184 It isn't the war that matters, it's the after-war. The world we're going down into. |