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pre·war

 (prē′wôr′)
adj.
Existing or occurring before a war.
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prewar

(ˌpriːˈwɔː; ˈpriːˌwɔː)
adj
of or occurring in the period before a war, esp before World War I or II
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.prewar - existing or belonging to a time before a war; "prewar levels of industrial production"
postwar - belonging to the period after a war; "postwar resettlement"; "postwar inflation"
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Translations
prebellico
предвоенныйдовоенный

prewar

[ˈpriːˈwɔːʳ] ADJde antes de la guerra
the prewar periodla preguerra
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prewar

[ˈpriːˈwɔːʳ] adjdell'anteguerra, anteguerra inv
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Prewar details include high, beamed ceilings, archways, hardwood floors and an abundance of closet space.
Wintershall AG, a German oil and natural-gas producer, said Thursday it expected its Libyan production to rise in 2013 to the prewar level of 100,000 barrels per day, and perhaps even higher.
OMV Chief Executive Gerhard Roiss had said in December that production levels would reach prewar levels in 12-15 months, a target that Pusswald said the firm was sticking to for now.
Summary: Libya's oil production is set to reach 500,000 barrels per day by early October or nearly a third of prewar output, a senior source in the National Oil Corporation said Thursday.
"After the war, it became difficult to view prewar images as anything but a prelude to destruction," she wrote, "a backshadowing that distilled the complicated, multifaceted reality of prewar Jewish life into a two-dimensional shrine." A new look at Vishniac, Newhouse suggested, would bring about a fuller appreciation of the breadth of the culture that was wiped out.
TOP RIGHT: An outbreak of private balconies on Caribbean cruise liners in the late 1980s forced other lines to follow suit (although a few prewar liners had them for a sprinkling of first class passengers).
Becoming modern women; love and female identity in prewar Japanese literature and culture.
on Thursday unveiled the final two sections of its Phase II report on prewar intelligence, which detail Bush administration misstatements and exaggerations on prewar Iraq intel.
During 2004 Senate hearings into prewar intelligence on Iraq, Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, deferred until after the election an inquiry into the most contentious issue: whether Bush administration officials consciously relied on misinformation in crafting prewar statements about Saddam's arsenal.
Grant and Sherman shared many common experiences despite their differences: they were prewar failures, they each struggled to join the war effort, and they each collaborated even while under fire on the battlefield, giving orders and learning from their decisions--and each other.
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