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  • adjective Occurring before a period of revolution.

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pre- +‎ revolution

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Examples

  • Lawyers place primary blame for the prosecution's position on the Ministry of Interior and the state public prosecution office—both of which are staffed almost entirely by prerevolution hires.

    Mubarak Prosecutors Face Criticism Matt Bradley 2012

  • The hero of Inherent Vice worries that "the Psychedelic Sixties, this little parenthesis of light, might close after all, and all be lost, taken back into darkness," that "everything in this dream of prerevolution was in fact doomed to end," with the "faithless, money-driven world" reasserting "its control over all the lives it felt entitled to touch, fondle and molest." ...

    Gershon Hepner: inherent Vice 2009

  • He recalled that prerevolution Cuban society was already very impermeable to religion, which found its main supporters among the middle and upper classes.

    INAUGURAL OF CARLOS ANDRES PEREZ 1989

  • "And in the past, prerevolution, you needed bribery to get your paperwork through."

    NYT > Home Page By HANNAH SELIGSON 2011

  • Cuba Nostalgia is a three-day festival that celebrates all things Cuban, particularly the prerevolution glory days of

    Broward-Palm Beach New Times | Complete Issue 2010

  • Youssefi doesn't remember exactly when the photo was taken, but it signifies the calm before the storm-before the young girl and her family encountered the "total madness" of prerevolution Iran.

    Web Section 2009

  • But Gordon belonged to South Florida, and South Florida was a great tangle of fakery too, desperate to turn itself into Kenya, Brazil, Madagascar, Tahiti, Hawaii, Kentucky, the Pyrenees, or prerevolution Santiago de Cuba.

    Dream State Diane Roberts 2008

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