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postdictatorial

postdictatorial adjective: after a dictatorship has ended.

Adjective

postdictatorial (not comparable)

  1. After a dictatorship has ended.
    • Rojas was expected to bring peace, prosperity, and even remedies for Colombia’s desperate social problems that still lurk—and perhaps more so in the present postdictatorial period than ever before—as the greatest danger to the nation’s long-range stability.1959, Tad Szulc, Twilight of the Tyrants, Henry Holt and Company, page 205
    • In practice, the four postdictatorial presidents have reflected a movement away from democratic-caesarist patterns of behavior.1977, Venezuela: The Democratic Experience, →ISBN, page 28

Origin of postdictatorial

From post- + dictatorial.

Questions about postdictatorial

What does postdictatorial mean?
Postdictatorial means after a dictatorship has ended.
What part of speech is postdictatorial?
Postdictatorial is an adjective.

Words near postdictatorial in the dictionary

  1. postdiapause
  2. postdiastemal
  3. postdiastolic
  4. postdiauxic
  5. postdict
  6. postdictatorial
  7. postdictatorship
  8. postdictatorships
  9. postdicted
  10. postdicting
  11. postdiction

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