wartime

Etymology

war + time

noun

  1. (often attributive) A period during which a war is in progress in a particular place.
    Significant rail projects have been mothballed before in the face of changed circumstances - in particular, the LNER Woodhead project which was postponed due to wartime conditions and not revived until 1948, as money became available after nationalisation. December 2 2020, Industry Insider, “The costs on cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76

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