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post-war

adjective

  1. happening or existing after a war

    the early post-war years

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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A senior Palestinian official familiar with the talks told the BBC that Qatari, Egyptian and Turkish mediators played a major role in convincing Hamas to tone down its objections and to leave contentious points such as the fate of its weapons, Gaza's post-war governance and its other concerns for the negotiation table.

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Deploying their soldiers into a chaotic post-war enclave would open them up to accusations of collaborating with Israel.

In post-war Britain, obesity was rare due to food shortages and physically demanding lifestyles – lower-income groups were more likely to suffer from malnutrition.

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In his speech, the housing secretary will promise to "build baby build", while "taking lessons from the post-war Labour government housing boom".

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Previous waves of new towns had been "responses to overcrowding and economic imbalance in the post-war period; they offered affordable homes, green spaces and a sense of community", she said at an event run by the King's Foundation, a charity which promotes sustainability and protecting traditional craft and building skills.

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