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prewar

[ pree-wawr ]

adjective

  1. before the war:

    prewar prices.



prewar

/ ˈpriːˌwɔː; ˌpriːˈwɔː /

adjective

  1. of or occurring in the period before a war, esp before World War I or II
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of prewar1

First recorded in 1905–10; pre- + war 1
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She bought her first apartment in a prewar building on the Upper West Side soon after.

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“The Asia Co. was one of the businesses in our community prewar, and because he did so much business with Japan, I think he was lumped in, like maybe he was one of the spies.”

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After more than two years of Russia’s assault on Ukraine, street life in Kyiv — more than 200 miles from the nearest front line in the country’s east — is mostly back to its prewar vitality.

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After the war, Schmitt refused to submit to denazification, and remained completely unrepentant of his prewar beliefs.

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Vovchansk, which became a battlefield again in May after Russian forces came over the border in the Kharkiv region, had about 2,000 residents by December, down from its prewar population of about 17,000.

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