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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pre-war
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
period
▪ Beer consumption fell as compared to the pre-war period, and did not pick up again to 1945 levels until 1968.
▪ However, despite this frontal Puritan assault, the popular religious culture of the pre-war period survived.
▪ In the immediate pre-war period, the Bolsheviks' Pravda attracted much more support than the Menshevik organ, Luch.
years
▪ But the sharp decline in peasant disturbances in the pre-war years pointed to peaceful development.
▪ During the immediate pre-war years the characteristic features of imperialism rapidly intensified.
▪ In the pre-war years, his lack of charisma and poor judgement of men contributed significantly to tension within the establishment.
▪ Nevertheless, it was not until the last pre-war years that recruitment from the intelligentsia declined.
▪ Nor do they deny the growing popularity of Bolshevik rather than Menshevik slogans and strategy in the pre-war years.
▪ Peter performed this function with maximum cheerfulness for the last two pre-war years and the first two afterwards.
▪ The Pilling Circular Tour of pre-war years has recently been revived using vintage trams and buses. 3.
▪ There were many such tours in the pre-war years, often taken with Barfield, sometimes with Warnie, sometimes both.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bert Hall, a true Texan soldier-of-fortune, already had a colourful pre-war flying career behind him.
▪ But does it exist anywhere outside coiled up rolls of decaying celluloid of pre-war films?
▪ But that is looking back to pre-war pre-Blitz days.
▪ Different sections of the pre-war work-force suffered from one or the other.
▪ The last of the pre-war Kindertransporte left Berlin on 31 August.
▪ There was some pre-war and wartime development but the real growth began in the 1940s.
▪ They feared a post-war depression but wanted a return to pre-war policies.
▪ Tommy did all the pre-war Chapel outings.
Wiktionary
pre-war

a. 1 Before a war. 2 Before the most recent or significant war in a culture's history. 3 Before the outbreak of World War II in 1939.

Wikipedia
Pre-war

Pre-war or prewar is the period before the most recent or significant war in a culture's history.

Pre-war may refer to:

  • pre World War II
  • Pre-war architecture, buildings from the 20th century before World War II

Usage examples of "pre-war".

Pop startled everybody by driving into the yard in a Rolls-Royce, a pre-war landaulette in black.

If Peter was keen on keeping up decayed traditions he would find plenty of opportunity by keeping to a pre-War standard of watermanship, manners and dress.

A pre-war Chinese tank engine that had been cannibalized years ago, nothing more than a collection of barcoded spare parts, keeping old trains on the branch lines serviceable.

By 1946, Britain’s crime figures had doubled since pre-war days: twice as many robberies, burglaries, rapes and crimes of violence.

He told me he had obtained a special licence and was back on the air with his pre-war callsign SV1RX.

My friend Mr Eleftheriou at the Ministry issued me with a special licence and I came on the air again using my pre-war callsign SV1RX.

New Worlds started as a mimeographed amateur magazine published by John "Ted" Carnell during the pre-war years.

Mallory, the idol of every young mountaineer and cragsman in pre-war England, whose fantastic climbing exploits had made world headlines, in '38 and '39: Mallory, who had twice been baulked by the most atrocious ill-fortune from surprising Rommel in his desert headquarters: Mallory, who had three times refused promotion in order to stay with his beloved Cretans who worshipped him the other side of idolatry.

The place was strictly hustle and bustle, as busy as an airport terminal in the pre-war days.

The references in his book are all pre-war, the deserts of Egypt and Libya in the 19305, interspersed with references to cave art or gallery art or journal notes in his own small handwriting.

The former, in a pre-war report, categorically stated that the mortality rate below the age of fifty-five was twice as high for seamen as it was for the rest of the male population, and statistics issued by the latter showed that the death rate for seamen of all ages was 47% in excess of the national average.

A pre-war detached house, standing a little back from the road and elevated above its level, partially screened by a stone wall and a dark hedge.

Janeed had heard that in pre-war times a certain form of group mania infected the passengers of ocean liners.

The original pre-war version of the Seine had linked the System, but it was primitive compared with its quantum logic successor.

Antoine de St Exup‚ry, the French pioneer aviator whose semiautobiographical novel Vol de Nuit, set in pre-war Argentina, I had so greatly enjoyed.