inter-war period

collocation in English

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interwar
adjective[before noun]
uk /ˌɪn.təˈwɔːr/ us /ˌɪn.t̬ɚˈwɔːr/
happening or existing in the period between two wars, especially the First World War and the Second World ...
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period
noun[C]
uk /ˈpɪə.ri.əd/ us /ˈpɪr.i.əd/
a length ...
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The inter-warperiod is notable for the bureaucratization of health care provision and assistance regulations, a process accelerated by the war.
During the inter-warperiod, most of the humbler posts in the colonial administration, particularly those of interpreters and guards, went to veterans.
These comprise the builders of about half of the houses constructed in those areas in the inter-warperiod.
Trained midwives had difficulty throughout the inter-warperiod in obtaining replacement drugs and renewing their equipment.
By the inter-warperiod, the legacy of ever-extending cemeteries was increasingly deemed problematic.
The historiography on the inter-warperiod is much less abundant.
The world of the inter-warperiod was a dog-eat-dog affair.
In the inter-warperiod, the multiple retailers developed both major city centre sites and built branches in new residential suburbs.
Their local economies were similar, both being founded on coal, textile production and metalworking, and diversifying into comparable new industries in the inter-warperiod.
Here, as at other points in the inter-warperiod, political officials raised the possibility of a medical strategy for eliminating female circumcision.
Variations on this theme appear again and again in the strategic overviews prepared by the intelligence services during the inter-warperiod.
The inter-warperiod was a time of innovation and expansion in medical provision.
The city still had stocks of suburban land left over from the vast acquisitions of the inter-warperiod.
Secondly, it points to the continued politicization of working-class women's consumption into the inter-warperiod.
The inter-warperiod had seen a decline in the use of common land and the traditional mechanisms for their management.
The professional organisational forms made up the basis of the entire movement in the inter-warperiod.
Above all: why was the post-1945 era so much more successful than the inter-warperiod?
This may partly account for the uneven pattern of development of mental hospitals in the inter-warperiod.
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