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postclass

postclass adjective: occurring after a class is finished.

Adjective

postclass (not comparable)

  1. Occurring after a class is finished.
    • Students who just had a 90-minute (smoke-free) class were either asked to participate in our study before or after they had their postclass cigarette.1999, Douglas L. Medin, Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory, →ISBN
    • The postclass survey consisted of 19 open-ended questions, focusing on participants' hopes of their future work as leaders who would support adult development, their conceptions of supporting adult learning after LTL, and any experiences that supported their learning and leadership development in...2009, Eleanor Drago-Severson, Leading Adult Learning: Supporting Adult Development in Our Schools, →ISBN
  2. Having no rigid class structure (in a society that previously had one).
    • Sharryn Kasmir's analysis enables us to penetrate the otherwise paradoxical situation in which cooperators in this putative postclass paradise are beginning to organize syndicates to protect their interests.1996, Sharryn Kasmir, The Myth of Mondragon, →ISBN
    • Nor will the emergence of postclass society imply the end of social division and conflict.1997, David Owen, Sociology after postmodernism, →ISBN, page 37

Origin of postclass

From post- + class.

Questions about postclass

What does postclass mean?
Postclass means occurring after a class is finished.
What part of speech is postclass?
Postclass is an adjective.

Words near postclass in the dictionary

  1. postcingulids
  2. postcingulum
  3. postcircumcision
  4. postcivilization
  5. postcladistic
  6. postclass
  7. postclassic
  8. postclassical
  9. postclassically
  10. postclavicle
  11. postclavicles

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