prefixture

prefixture

(priːˈfɪkstʃə)
n
(Grammar) something used or added as a prefix
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Just as the 'postcolonial' became the 'most recent entrant to achieve prominent visibility in the ranks of these "post" marked words', concerns about the product it actually sold started to surface in what was still known then as the 'Third World.'(8) There is more to the now well established institutional power of (post)colonialism than the tussle over its adorning prefixture, as is evident at its various sites of address.