war effort
noun
: all that is being done to win a war
He wanted to contribute in some way to the war effort.
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund/CBS News After her service, Carlson Evans spent years working to establish a separate memorial for the more than 265,000 American women who served in the war effort, co-founding the Vietnam Women's Memorial Foundation in 1984.
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The film follows an executive who is required to sign over his employees to be cannon fodder for the Russian war effort in Ukraine.
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Some students have also expressed a similar lack of enthusiasm for the Russian war effort.
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After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, they were deemed a threat to the war effort.
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Riley Moser, CBS News, 24 May 2026
The film follows an executive who is required to sign over his employees to be cannon fodder for the Russian war effort in Ukraine.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2026
Some students have also expressed a similar lack of enthusiasm for the Russian war effort.
—Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, they were deemed a threat to the war effort.
—Assistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
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“War effort.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/war%20effort. Accessed 29 May. 2026.
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