postarrest

adjective

post·​ar·​rest ˌpōst-ə-ˈrest 

1

medical : occurring after cardiac arrest

postarrest resuscitation

2

: existing or occurring after an arrest

… he allegedly tried to hire someone to kill another person for $5,000, according to postarrest information …

—Melinda J. Overstreet

a postarrest statement

Examples of postarrest in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s office, representing Sheriff Vicki Hennessy, who oversees the city’s jails, argued that the judge should instead discontinue the bail system for all cases and leave postarrest release decisions up to individual judges. —Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 23 Aug. 2019

Word History

First Known Use

1920, in the meaning defined at sense 2