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postclass

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English

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Etymology

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From post- +‎ class.

Adjective

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postclass (not comparable)

  1. Occurring after a class is finished.
    • 1999, Douglas L. Medin, Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory, →ISBN:
      Students who just had a 90-minute (smoke-free) class were either asked to participate in our study before or after they had their postclass cigarette.
    • 2009, Eleanor Drago-Severson, Leading Adult Learning: Supporting Adult Development in Our Schools, →ISBN:
      The postclass survey consisted of 19 open-ended questions, focusing on participants' hopes of their future work as leaders who would support adult development, their conceptions of supporting adult learning after LTL, and any experiences that supported their learning and leadership development in LTL.
    • 2013 -, Carl A. Young, Sara Kajder, Research on Technology in English Education, →ISBN, page 46:
      Results From Teacher Surveys To examine if attitudes toward technology had changed over the course of the class, paired t-tests were conducted between preclass and postclass survey responses.
  2. Having no rigid class structure (in a society that previously had one).
    • 1996, Sharryn Kasmir, The Myth of Mondragon, →ISBN:
      Sharryn Kasmir's analysis enables us to penetrate the otherwise paradoxical situation in which cooperators in this putative postclass paradise are beginning to organize syndicates to protect their interests.
    • 1997, David Owen, Sociology after postmodernism, →ISBN, page 37:
      Nor will the emergence of postclass society imply the end of social division and conflict.
    • 2018, Lionel Shriver, Exchange Rates:
      For all its postclass pretentions, modern Britain was just as feudally cleaved into serfs and landowning genrtry as it had been in the Middle Ages, and entering his own middle age Ellio was personally out, while gloating facades on either side of the road rose implacably against this poor asshole American who hadn't the brains to have swung onto the much-vaunted "housing ladder" when he'd had the chance.