: the condition of being prepared to undertake or maintain war
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This has Trump on something of a war footing with the Federal Reserve.—William Pesek, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025 Russia’s total, $462 billion, was also larger, despite its far smaller economy, having retooled its entire economy on a war footing since invading Ukraine three years ago.—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2025 Heavily sanctioned Russia, whose economy has been put on a war footing for the last couple of years, will also be relishing the possibility that sanctions could be lifted as part of a peace deal.—Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 13 Feb. 2025 Russian planners may also have assumed that Ukraine’s forces would not be ready because the Ukrainian government did not move to a war footing until a few weeks before the invasion.—Dara Massicot, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2023 See All Example Sentences for war footing
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