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postliminary

postliminary adjective: occurring afterward, as a concluding step.

Adjective

postliminary (not comparable)

  1. Occurring afterward, as a concluding step.

Origin of postliminary

Based on preliminary, with pre- replaced by its opposite, post-.

Questions about postliminary

What does postliminary mean?
Postliminary means occurring afterward, as a concluding step.
What part of speech is postliminary?
Postliminary is an adjective.

Words near postliminary in the dictionary

  1. postlicensure
  2. postligand
  3. postligation
  4. postlike
  5. postlimbal
  6. postliminary
  7. postliminia
  8. postliminiary
  9. postliminies
  10. postliminious
  11. postliminium

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