postwar era

collocation in English

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post-war
adjective
uk
/ˈpəʊst.wɔː/us
/ˈpoʊst.wɔːr/
happening or existing in the period after a war, especially the First or Second ...
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era
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɪə.rə/us
/ˈer.ə/us
/ˈɪr.ə/
a period of time of which particular events or stages of development ...
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(Definition ofpost-waranderafrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Throughout thepostwarera, leftist opposition parties strongly objected to enacting such legislation, arguing that it would represent a step toward the nation's remilitarization.
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He follows an orthodoxy already being queried about the place of women and feminism in thepostwarera.
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Not all historians concur that thepostwarerawas a period of cultural sterility.
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The consumer revolution of thepostwarerahas been of considerable interest to historians.
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The constructional systems of thepostwarerarelied implicitly on consortia of local authority design teams and manufacturers committed to their resolution, development and refinement.
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The currentpostwarerahas been marked by devastating economic and socio-political instability.
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There were many for ms of 'homelessness' in thepostwarera, and viewers could see themselves in tales of new beginnings.
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The frequent transgressions of the inscribed separate spheres model of thepostwarerawere more widely seen as a form of violation than they had been before the war.
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As thepostwareracreeps on, some of us are nervous that the high hopes raised by the war will not be realised.
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Have we now reached a stage of development where we have passed into thepostwarera?
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At least in terms of thepostwarera, the multinational company is one of the phenomena of our age.
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We shall get somewhere near where we want to go if we learn the lessons of thepostwarera.
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All three predecessors were major financial institutions in their own right and had served as cornerstones of major zaibatsu (prewar era) and keiretsu (postwarera).
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Audiences on a whole, received the film enthusiastically, making it one of the largest grossing pictures of thepostwarera.
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Almost every fighter project in thepostwareraimmediately applied the concept, which started appearing on production fighters in the late 1940s.
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This slot was established on radio in the earlypostwareraand moved to television in 1961.
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Performed strategic bombardment training missions during thepostwarera.
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He was a champion of neorealism in thepostwarera.
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Many public women's schools also went coeducational in thepostwarera.
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