postcommunist
adjective
post·com·mu·nist ˌpōst-ˈkäm-yə-nist 
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: existing or occurring after the decline or end of communism
postcommunist reformation
… what's at stake here is the establishment of a new form of governance that's been spreading across postcommunist Central and Eastern Europe …
Dalibor Rohac
Dalibor Rohac
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web His work in postcommunist states could be dispiriting. James Taranto, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2018 Conditions are better elsewhere, but the gap between prosperous European countries like Germany and postcommunist states like Poland remains immense. Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 23 July 2018
James Taranto, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2018 Conditions are better elsewhere, but the gap between prosperous European countries like Germany and postcommunist states like Poland remains immense. Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 23 July 2018 Word History
First Known Use
1946, in the meaning defined above
- letting on about
- letting out
- letting someone know
- letting the cat out of the bag
- letting the cat out of the bag (about)
- letting the cat out of the bag about
- letting up
- letting up (on)
- letting up on
- letting-in
- lettings
- Lettish
- lettishes
- Letto-
- lettre bâtarde
- lettre de cachet
- lettre de créance
- lettres
- lettres bâtardes
- lettres de cachet
- lettres de créance
- letts
- lettsomite
- lettterboxes
- lettuce