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midwar

midwar noun: the middle part of a war.

Noun

midwar (uncountable)

  1. The middle part of a war.

Adverb

midwar (not comparable)

  1. During the middle part of a war.
    • Government policy, implemented midwar, turned from urging women to take war jobs toward ejecting women from those places so that they — both the jobs and the women — would be available to the homecoming soldiers.1988, Cynthia Harrison, On Account of Sex: The Politics of Women's Issues 1945—1968, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN, page x
    • The other is an early version of the dog tag, made of oil cloth. These started to be used midwar, after 4,000 bodies could not be identified after the Battle of Gettysburg.2006 November 22, Michele Alperin, “Princeton's Role in the Civil War”, in U.S. 1, page 35

Forms of midwar

alternative formmid-war

Origin of midwar

From mid- + war.

Questions about midwar

What does midwar mean?
Midwar means the middle part of a war.
What part of speech is midwar?
Midwar can be a noun or an adverb.

Words near midwar in the dictionary

  1. midvertebral
  2. Midville
  3. midvitreous
  4. midvoyage
  5. midwall
  6. midwar
  7. midward
  8. midwards
  9. midwatch
  10. midwatches
  11. midwater

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