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Examples
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But the new instances of post-fix problems will revive concerns that Toyota has not yet properly identified the true source of the faults that are alleged to have caused the deaths of over 50 people on the roads of America.
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Government investigators said Wednesday that they had found 10 possible cases of post-fix problems.
The Seattle Times 2010
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As for the revival, that was the Living Theatre's fiftieth-anniversary version of Jack Gelber's great pre-fix / post-fix play
unknown title 2009
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In Swedish director Beata Gardeler's "In Your Veins," a heroin-addicted female cop hides her dirty secret, often implausibly, from her fellow policemen, including her steadfast new boyfriend, who can't understand why she starts shaking and frothing when their car stalls in the middle of the countryside or notices that she sneaks out every night in a daze only to return comfy and cozy in the morning, post-fix.
indieWIRE News 2009
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Latin to add weight to the authority of one’s opinion, one might (the impersonal is also helpful for establishing an academic tone) suggest that “at” used as a sentential post-fix is a locative particle, which helps distinguish the use of “where” from alternative directional uses such as “Where is he going TO?” or “Where is she coming FROM?”, and which provides parallelism to those constructions.
Gammerstang commented on the word post-fix
(noun/verb) - A letter appended to the end of another word; a suffix, an affix. To add a word, syllable, or letter at the end of another word.
--Edward Lloyd's Encyclopaedic Dictionary, 1895
January 17, 2018