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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
post-war
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the modern/post-war/Victorian etc era
▪ a collection of romantic paintings from the Victorian era
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
boom
▪ The foundations of the post-war boom in Britain were laid in those crises at the start of the 1930s.
▪ During the long post-war boom, argues Aglietta, such flexibility had not been an important regulating mechanism.
▪ In its heyday, in the post-war boom, Pringle's employed four thousand men.
▪ Further, the post-war boom at the height of Fordism led to an increased demand for labour.
▪ A brief post-war boom brought inflation, which was followed by a sharp recession and unemployment.
▪ This would all have been uninhabited malarial marshland until the post-war boom made it worth draining.
era
▪ In the current period industrial relations is conducted in a very different climate from that of much of the post-war era.
▪ On paper, the economy is one of the healthiest in the post-war era.
▪ These figures, moreover, have been borne out for most of the post-war era.
▪ About four years ago, Mr Rafsanjani shifted to the right, voicing the reformist policies that the post-war era craved.
▪ In spite of a change in political outlook, the ravaging of national book treasures did not stop in the post-war era.
▪ Many outer estates are nothing less than the architect-designed, system-built slums of our post-war era.
generation
▪ To post-war generations, the deli has become a way to stay connected, through the taste buds with their roots.
government
▪ The ultimate objectives of this strategy were of course no different from those of previous post-war governments.
history
▪ This is only the second time in post-war history that war booty art treasures have been put on view.
▪ Archie was a former cinema manager who became the most successful chairman in the post-war history of Darlington Football Club.
period
▪ Nor was this resistance to diminish in the post-war period, as will be seen in the next chapter.
▪ They lost in the general elections by the two biggest margins in the post-war period.
▪ The post-war period in Britain has been characterized by the development of geriatric medicine as a legitimate medical specialism.
▪ Experience was quickly to show that these conditions were not forthcoming; neither have they been realized throughout the post-war period.
▪ In the post-war period some democratic elitists detected a major flaw in this notion of bureaucratic rationality.
▪ Consider in this light the succession of governments in the post-war period up to 1979.
▪ The post-war period until the late 1970s witnessed governments playing a positive role in stimulating demand through reflation of the economy.
▪ These various basic principles which underpinned the planning machine have survived throughout the post-war period.
reconstruction
▪ Third, New Towns constituted experiments in social engineering - well in tune with the psychological requirements for post-war reconstruction.
▪ In 1917-18 she served on the committee on post-war reconstruction, where she frequently clashed with Beatrice Webb.
▪ The committee has been represented on and has played its part in post-war reconstruction schemes having this object in view.
▪ Such ideals were grandiose both in their conception and in relation to the practicalities of post-war reconstruction.
▪ An equally long lasting, but more profound government stance came from the perceived need to prepare plans for post-war reconstruction.
▪ But plans for post-war reconstruction were to bear only limited fruit.
world
▪ Bonn's power in the post-war world had, after all, been limited by the division from the East.
▪ The principle of multilateralism has been pursued with varying degrees of success and sincerity in the post-war world.
▪ Congress would brook no potential economic rivals in the post-war world.
▪ It was given at a time of full employment and full employment persisted into the post-war world.
▪ In the post-war world, our power has been reduced.
▪ And to be rich, in the post-war world, could only mean dollar-rich.
▪ In the post-war world the fireside has been split apart, indeed subsumed to the kitchen.
years
▪ This never materialised, and the pits were extended in post-war years to facilitate routine inspections.
▪ From the post-war years until the mid-1960s it had experienced steady decline.
▪ This judicial readiness to sanction rescue was revised in post-war years in the light of Bowlby's work on maternal deprivation.
▪ This was especially so in the early post-war years.
▪ At the centre of this emergent mode of rationality was the negotiation of long-term employment tenure in the immediate post-war years.
▪ The post-war years were full of women longing for a full skirt and unable to make it.
▪ What small political influence it possessed was confined to the immediate post-war years of social tension, inflation and unemployment.
▪ She had longed to be a bad girl in those post-war years, those austerity years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ However, 1985 signalled the end of the post-war trend of decline in working hours in Britain.
▪ None the less, the picture for output in manufacturing does indicate a shift after 1973, away from the trend of steady post-war growth.
▪ Nor was this resistance to diminish in the post-war period, as will be seen in the next chapter.
▪ Shore challenged the regional and new towns policies of the post-war period which had encouraged economic and population dispersal.
▪ The post-war period in Britain has been characterized by the development of geriatric medicine as a legitimate medical specialism.
▪ The experience of these writers was seen as emblematic of the increased social mobility that characterized post-war Britain.
▪ This pattern of mortality has remained approximately constant over the post-war period.
▪ Until the 1970s Coventry was one of the fastest growing cities in post-war Britain.
Wiktionary
post-war

a. pertaining to a period of time immediately following the end of a war; where there is a cessation of conflict

Wikipedia
Post-War

Post-War is the fifth studio album by M. Ward. It was released on August 22, 2006 by Merge Records. It features the single " To Go Home", a cover of a song written by Daniel Johnston. Guest appearances were made by Jim James of My Morning Jacket (who produced the track "Magic Trick"), Neko Case and Mike Mogis. Ward has said that the song "Today's Undertaking" was heavily inspired by Roy Orbison's 1963 single " In Dreams."

Usage examples of "post-war".

Gertie Roper, chargehand and faithful servant before the Second World War, all through the war and now post-war I was getting on a bit, butjumped about like a two year ld at the prospect of the factory turning out nylon stockings.

Also at fault was the post-war collapse of the local wholesale business, when prosperity allowed carload lots to be shipped across the West instead of being broken up by wholesalers in Winnipeg, which meant that the three provinces West of Manitoba began to deal directly with the large eastern companies and institutions.

Extracts from the Morgenthau diary demonstrate that Wall Street political power was sufficient even to control the appointment of officers responsible for the denazification and eventual government of post-war Germany.

Sermon recalled then that Barrowdene was famous for cross-country events and that several old Harrovians had made reputations for themselves in Olympic Events in post-war years.

The post-war years had been good ones for Soviet science, which was only proper since it had been science that had crushed the Hitlerite foe.

There were some armed Piegan close around Cloud Talker, each of them carrying an ancient Springfield rifle with the post-war conversion to turn what originally was a muzzle-loading musket into an almost-as-useless .

Another fine writer is Charles Todd, whose Inspector Ian Rutledge carries the psychic wounds of World War I trench warfare with him as he returns to a post-war England, aided by perhaps the most unusual Watsonian sounding board yet devised.

Renovated Peabody Estate homes shared space with the blank brick walls of post-war brutalist office blocks.

Of course I am in favour of declaring our war aims, though there is a danger in proclaiming any very detailed scheme for post-war reconstruction.

Paunchy men played boules in the gravel near Fonquevillers' restored church, an ugly building in the same pseudo-Nouveau style as all the other post-War churches on the Somme.

In December 1946, he had betrayed Robert Castleford, a distinguished civil servant working for the Allied Control Commission in post-war Berlin, and ever since then he had been a double agent, at first for the NKVD, then later the MVD, finally the KGB.

Hillsborough was the fourth post-war British football disaster, the third in which large numbers of people were crushed to death following some kind of failure in crowd control.

Ashton was reminded of seeing, in his own days as a midshipman in a small 'conventional' post-war destroyer, a three-badge Able Seaman standing without any support except a natural sailor-like balance while he shaved with a cut-throat razor in a force 8 blow.

Suspected of being implicated in the killing of two left-wing Socialists in post-war politics who were urging a government-sponsored intensification of enquiries into war crimes.

He was well-known, both in America and around the globe, as being the best fighter pilot in the post-war world.