Postcollapse

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    After a collapse. not-comparable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From post- + collapse.

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