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postcollapse

postcollapse adjective: after a collapse.

Adjective

postcollapse (not comparable)

  1. After a collapse.
    • The absence of modern planes now is not, in fact, a reflection of the current state of the industry but of the postcollapse crisis of the 1990s — the lead time is long on new plane designs.2009 July 29, Andrew E. Kramer, “Aeroflot Sheds Its Soviet Legacy and Turns to a Western Fleet”, in New York Times

Origin of postcollapse

From post- + collapse.

Questions about postcollapse

What does postcollapse mean?
Postcollapse means after a collapse.
What part of speech is postcollapse?
Postcollapse is an adjective.

Words near postcollapse in the dictionary

  1. postcoital tests
  2. postcoital tristesse
  3. postcoitally
  4. postcoitum
  5. postcoitus
  6. postcollapse
  7. postcollege
  8. postcollegiate
  9. postcollicular
  10. postcollision
  11. postcollisional

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