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UK
/pɹɪwˈɔː/
]
[ US /pɹiˈwɔɹ/ ]
[ US /pɹiˈwɔɹ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
existing or belonging to a time before a war
prewar levels of industrial production
How To Use prewar In A Sentence
- A bill to revive trade on prewar conditions between Britain and France was defeated in Parliament.
- You are of course free to omit it, but be prewarned that the dish will not be nearly as flavorful. The Accidental Gourmet
- Humanity_Cat: Before I start, I must prewarn that I have just recently started reading your Hetalia blog, so some parts of this are kind of smooshed together … .. Anime Nano!
- Reactions were initiated by the addition of crude cell sonicates to prewarmed solutions.
- This was a big incentive for them to recriminate about the administration's prewar work, and congressional Democrats have pressed for one retrospective investigation after another. How Bush Sold the War
- Like the industrial zaibatsu of Japan's prewar society, the Yamauchi had been on an expansionist course for almost all their history. FLOATING CITY
- The former London mayor was ostentatiously not making a genuine historical point about prewar Europe. Times, Sunday Times
- He worked his way through the ranks during the prewar years and when the war came swiftly gained a commission into the Intelligence Corps. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
- Western European production rose rapidly, and by 1950 it had topped the prewar level by 25 percent.
- New tableware and barware, from cocktail shakers to punch bowls, cigarette urns, cruets, and jam jars, grew from the prewar models created by Dreves and Thompson to become the mainstays of Steuben's production.