x- [prefix] - used to show that someone is no longer what they were; former (EARLIER)Hundreds of unemployed ex-prisoners could be pushed back towards crime by the closure of job training programmes.Did you know that she'd decided to remarry her ex-husband?A lot of people working as security guards are ex-policemen.
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Meaning of E in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012