Definition of Postwar

1. Adjective. Belonging to the period after a war. "Postwar inflation"

Antonyms: Prewar

Definition of Postwar

1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of post-war) of or pertaining to the period after a war ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Postwar

1. occurring or existing after a war [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Postwar

postvacation
postvaccinal
postvaccination
postvagotomy
postvasectomy
postverbal
postverbally
postverdict
postveto
postvictory
postviewing
postviral
postvocalic
postvocalically
postvote
postwar (current term)
postweaning
postwoman
postwomen
postwork
postworkout
postworkshop
postzionist
postzionists
postzygapophyseal
postzygapophysis
postzygotic
posy

Literary usage of Postwar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Intersectoral Factor Mobility and Agricultural Growth by Yair Mundlak (1979)
"Applying the postwar rates of technical change to the prewar period would have resulted ... Adopting the postwar saving rates would have resulted in greater ..."

2. Design and Analysis by Bernard Leupen (1997)
"3,4 The postwar period While Alexander proceeded from the principle that a purely ... i6 The stance adopted by the functionalists of postwar reconstruction ..."

3. Ideas, Concepts, Doctrine: Basic Thinking in the United States Air Force by Robert Frank Futrell (1989)
"Few of the postwar organizational problems were as perplexing as the future of ... The Air Transport Command wished to continue into the postwar period at a ..."

4. American Neutrality in the 20th Century: The Impossible Dream by John N. Petrie (1996)
"postwar "PEACE" The United States intervention in Lebanon (1958), Santo Domingo, and South Vietnam . . . as well as the Russian invasions of Hungary and ..."

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