postwar

[pohst-wawr]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a period following a war.

   postwar problems; postwar removal of rationing.

Word History and Origins

Origin of postwar¹

First recorded in 1905–10; post- + war ¹

Example Sentences

The so-called Treaty of Detroit, the 1950 GM-UAW contract, represented a new postwar industrial peace combining rising industrial wages with rising corporate profits.

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The LDP, which has ruled Japan for most of its postwar history, is also struggling to regain popular trust after a political funding scandal.

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He will also talk about rebuilding, in a nod to Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee's postwar government's programme of new towns, which fixed the devastation wreaked by bombs as well as poverty.

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Critics praised her as the "embodiment of postwar European glamour".

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Part of the reason those recipes look so alien to us now is that, in postwar America, food science was less kitsch than it was cutting-edge.

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