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Definition of post-mortem noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

post-mortem

noun
 
/ˌpəʊst ˈmɔːtəm/
 
/ˌpəʊst ˈmɔːrtəm/
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  1. (also post-mortem examination)
     a medical examination of the body of a dead person in order to find out how they died synonym autopsy
    • to do/conduct/carry out a post-mortem
    • post-mortem on somebody The post-mortem on the child revealed that she had been poisoned.
    • They’re doing a post-mortem on him today.
    Topics Crime and punishmentc2, Life stagesc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + post-mortem
    • carry out
    • conduct
    • do
    • …
    post-mortem + verb
    • reveal something
    • show something
    post-mortem + noun
    • examination
    preposition
    • post-mortem on
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  2. post-mortem (on something) a discussion or an examination of an event after it has happened, especially in order to find out why it failed
    • to hold a post-mortem on the party’s election defeat
    3. Word Originmid 18th cent.: from Latin, literally ‘after death’.
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