poststrike

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adjective

Occurring after a strike (work stoppage as protest).

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectivepoststrike (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOccurring after a strike (work stoppage as protest).

    Hopes for a better winter and spring — and fall — rest with a lineup of new series, a batch that the networks believe will benefit from the full efforts of writers poststrike.

    2009 January 26, Bill Carter, “New on the Networks: Safe Formulas From the Past”, in New York Times
  2. not comparableFollowing the striking motion of a snake.

    The nine phases may be clustered into three subgroups: prestrike, strike, and poststrike behavior.

    1992, Carl Gans, Philip Steven Ulinski, Biology of the Reptilia, page 435

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pós
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pósti
  3. Proto-Italic*posti
  4. Old Latinposte
  5. Latinpost
  6. Englishpost-
  7. Englishstrike
  8. Englishpoststrike

From post- + strike.

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Cite this entry
APA

poststrike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/poststrike

MLA

“poststrike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/poststrike. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “poststrike,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/poststrike.

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