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war effort

war effort noun: a coordinated mobilisation of a country's resources, both industrial and human, in support of its military forces during a war.

Noun

war effort (countable and uncountable, plural war efforts)

  1. A coordinated mobilisation of a country's resources, both industrial and human, in support of its military forces during a war.
    • During the war, but unrecorded because of the requirements of censorship, a link with the now partly-abandoned Cardiff Railway disappeared with the demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct, near Treforest, South Wales, in the latter part of 1942. The steelwork in this structure, amounting to nearly 1,150...1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 52
    • Curwen had inherited a printing business in Plaistow, east London. In 1915 the government appealed for scrap metal to help the war effort. Curwen gazed at the 'clever, fussy, pretentious Victorian typefaces spread about his composing room floor' and felt a wave of revulsion. He sent away more than...2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 161

Examples of war effort in a sentence

  • The steelwork in this structure, amounting to nearly 1,150 tons, was salvaged as scrap metal to assist the war effort.1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 52:
  • In 1915 the government appealed for scrap metal to help the war effort.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 161:

Forms of war effort

pluralwar efforts

Questions about war effort

What does war effort mean?
War effort means a coordinated mobilisation of a country's resources, both industrial and human, in support of its military forces during a war.
How do you use war effort in a sentence?
The steelwork in this structure, amounting to nearly 1,150 tons, was salvaged as scrap metal to assist the war effort.
What part of speech is war effort?
War effort is a noun.
What is the plural of war effort?
The plural of war effort is war efforts.

Words near war effort in the dictionary

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