postdepression

adjective

post·​de·​pres·​sion ˌpōst-di-ˈpre-shən 

-dē-

: occurring or existing after a depression (such as an economic depression)

postdepression wages

specifically, post-Depression : following the Great Depression of 1929 to circa 1939

… she wrote in it of the area's culture of tea cakes, genial manners and racial segregation in the post-Depression era.

—Serge F. Kovaleski and Jennifer Crossley Howard

Word History

First Known Use

1922, in the meaning defined above