war work
war work noun: work for an organization other than the military that supports a country's war activities.
Noun
war work (uncountable)
- Work for an organization other than the military that supports a country's war activities.
- Carriages have been converted into ambulance trains; railway workshops have made guns, tanks, aeroplanes and other war equipment, and railway steamships have done their full share of war work on Admiralty service.1943 March and April, John R. Hind, “The British Railways at War”, in Railway Magazine, page 95
- A more conventional idea of war work formed the basis of much women's documentary writing.2012, M. Joannou, The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945, →ISBN
Forms of war work
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Questions about war work
- What does war work mean?
- War work means work for an organization other than the military that supports a country's war activities.
- What part of speech is war work?
- War work is a noun.
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