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postdeprivation

postdeprivation adjective: after a period of deprivation.

Adjective

postdeprivation (not comparable)

  1. After a period of deprivation.
    • Taken together, the decisions indicate that for deprivations worked by such random and unauthorized departures from otherwise unimpugned and established state procedures the State provides the process due by making available adequate postdeprivation remedies.1989, Sandra Day O'Connor, Texas v. New Mexico

Origin of postdeprivation

From post- + deprivation.

Questions about postdeprivation

What does postdeprivation mean?
Postdeprivation means after a period of deprivation.
What part of speech is postdeprivation?
Postdeprivation is an adjective.

Words near postdeprivation in the dictionary

  1. postdeposition
  2. postdepositional
  3. postdepositionally
  4. postdepression
  5. postdepressive
  6. postdeprivation
  7. postdermabrasion
  8. postdeterminative
  9. postdeterminatives
  10. postdetermined
  11. postdeterminer

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