Meanings
adjectivepostcollapse (not comparable)
- not comparableAfter a collapse.
The absence of modern planes now is not, in fact, a reflection of the current state of the industry but of the postcollapse crisis of the 1990s — the lead time is long on new plane designs.
2009 July 29, Andrew E. Kramer, “Aeroflot Sheds Its Soviet Legacy and Turns to a Western Fleet”, in New York Times
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postcollapse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postcollapse
MLA
“postcollapse.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postcollapse. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postcollapse,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postcollapse.
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