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post-election

post-election

12 3.6
Happening after an election
  • adjective
  • /ˌpoʊst ɪˈlɛkʃən/
translation icon : poselectoral
  • There will be a post-election ceremony to celebrate the new officials next week.
  • post-election violence

Those would be sort of post election, post holidays layoffs.

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Examples

  • The primary goal of the post-election politics was to exclude the Welfare Party from the government.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Sam Smith made his comments in a post-election interview with Capitol reporters.

    Blog text (20)
  • And what it really came down to was post election things changed.

  • We did pre and post election surveys.

  • This week on rights and wrongs, we're looking at human rights in the US post election, and we're asking now what?

  • Welcome everybody to the post election Twilight Zone.

  • Why the Tea Party is the target of the post-election blame game.

    Blog text (11)
  • Catherine, let me read to you some of Haley's post election comments.

  • While the elections themselves were a positive contribution to popular democracy, the post-election pact was a setback.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Senate Democrats have spent nearly every day of the post-election session in multihour, closed-door strategy meetings.

    Blog text (13)

Antonyms

Happening before an election, often during campaigns

Surface Forms

post-election positive

Morphology

post-election = election (transparent) = post + election

The prefix 'post-' meaning 'after' combines directly with 'election' to yield 'after the election', a meaning easily inferable by learners.

Etymology

Post-election is made from post- meaning 'after' and election meaning 'a choice made by voting', the same idea you see in elect. So, post-election describes something that happens 'after' an election.