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poststrike

poststrike adjective: occurring after a strike (work stoppage as protest).

Adjective

poststrike (not comparable)

  1. Occurring after a strike (work stoppage as protest).
    • Hopes for a better winter and spring — and fall — rest with a lineup of new series, a batch that the networks believe will benefit from the full efforts of writers poststrike.2009 January 26, Bill Carter, “New on the Networks: Safe Formulas From the Past”, in New York Times
  2. Following the striking motion of a snake.
    • The nine phases may be clustered into three subgroups: prestrike, strike, and poststrike behavior.1992, Carl Gans, Philip Steven Ulinski, Biology of the Reptilia, page 435

Origin of poststrike

From post- + strike.

Questions about poststrike

What does poststrike mean?
Poststrike means occurring after a strike (work stoppage as protest).
What part of speech is poststrike?
Poststrike is an adjective.

Words near poststrike in the dictionary

  1. poststorm
  2. poststratification
  3. poststratifications
  4. poststreptococcal
  5. poststress
  6. poststrike
  7. poststroke
  8. poststructural
  9. poststructuralism
  10. poststructuralisms
  11. poststructuralist

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