| 词汇 | prewar |
| 释义 | prewar adjective[ not gradable ] us/ˌpriˈwɔr/ existing or happening before a war, esp. World War II Examples of prewarprewar In the prewar period these ideas had not been realized in any form whatsoever. His prewar essays exemplify the widespread sense of cultural pessimism of those years. In absolute terms the ie gradually lost independence, and it was on this basis that the early-modern ie and the prewar family system existed. This does seem to have been one of the decisive factors in prewar politics. His own prewar novels had been constructed around the very dualism the treatise condemns. One way or another, the attempt to reconcile opposites under the banner of form, rational or aesthetic, was the prewar identity order of the day. Officials applied heavily the ' martial race ' doctrine to prewar recruitment, and accorded ' martial ' tribes respect beyond that extended to non-martial peoples. Despite these failures, he insists, the course that the powers followed marked an irreversible change from the prewar diplomacy of imperialism. By the prewar decade, the jobber had clearly become a feature of the shop-floor. Immediately after the war they had reactivated their old, prewar networks. Histor ians have been at pains in recent decades to break down the paper walls that divide prewar, wartime and postwar. Actions that worked well in prewar prosperity had damaging results as economies contracted in the early 1930s. His prewar belief in ethical change was replaced by the technocratic vision that an improved organisation of national economy would overcome the problems of 'mechanisation'. They were required because the reduction in costs required for the restoration of gold payments at the prewar parity was threatening to reduce wages. Post-war literary history reflects the cultural will to return to the prewar gender status quo. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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