Definition of wartime
: a period during which a war is in progress
- rationing during wartime
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Examples of wartime in a Sentence
Many goods were rationed during wartime.
Recent Examples of wartime from the Web
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Robert Morgan named the aircraft after his wartime girlfriend, Margaret Polk, of Memphis and chose the artwork from a George Petty illustration in Esquire magazine, according to the museum.
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Because of wartime rationing, the Molly Marine statue wasn't made of metal but of concrete, with granite and marble chips added to the mix.
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Iraq’s coffers have been drained by a combination of wartime spending and oil-prices that fell dramatically over the past three years.
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In the event of war, Russian submarines would do what the Soviets had planned to do in wartime and what Nazi Germany attempted to do in World War II: shut down the Atlantic and prevent the U.S. from flowing reinforcements into Europe.
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The stage floor is a map of wartime Europe, with the flying ranges of bombers plotted in concentric circles.
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Two weeks ago, FirstEnergy asked the Department of Energy (DOE) to invoke Section 202(c), which allows the department to order certain US power plants to keep running during wartime or during a natural disaster.
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Because Spain was neutral during World War I, the country was not under the same wartime censorship restrictions.
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Even in wartime, the music plays—and who can listen to rumba without a beer?
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First Known Use of wartime
14th century
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Definition of wartime for English Language Learners
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: a time when a country is involved in a war
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