post-communist

1. 1.

   no longer communist; subsequent to being communistic

   “the bank announced its first loan to a post-communist country”

Questions about post-communist

What does post-communist mean?

post-communist means "no longer communist; subsequent to being communistic".

How many syllables are in post-communist?

post-communist has 4 syllables and divides as post--com-mu-nist under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is post-communist a common word?

post-communist is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.