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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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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of postwar1

First recorded in 1905–10; post- + war 1
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Certainly nothing like it has been seen since 1948, when the United States solidified its postwar leadership and banked global goodwill with the Marshall Plan, which rebuilt war-ravaged Europe, including former enemies.

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“Streetcar” presents a portrait of postwar America in which masculinity was testing how far it could outrun the determinations of class.

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Like the American superpower or not, when it existed during the heyday of the postwar world it did not do a bad job in maintaining a semblance of order.

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I am 72 years old and have lived my life in the benevolent shadow of the postwar order.

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With postwar Germany still largely in rubble, they found it difficult to earn a living and in 1957 they emigrated to Canada.

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