Postwar


[pohst-wawr] /ˈpoʊstˈwɔr/

adjective
1.
of, relating to, or characteristic of a period following a :
postwar problems; postwar removal of rationing.
adj.

also post-war, 1906, in reference to the U.S. Civil War, a hybrid from post- + war (n.). Cf. post-bellum.

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