postcollapse en · ADJ
Etymology
From post- + collapse.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) After a collapse.
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.
2009 July 29, Andrew E. Kramer, “Aeroflot Sheds Its Soviet Legacy and Turns to a Western Fleet”, in New York Times: