midwar

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noun

The middle part of a war.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounmidwar (uncountable)

alternative mid-war

  1. uncountableThe middle part of a war.
adverbmidwar (not comparable)

alternative mid-war

  1. not comparableDuring the middle part of a war.

    Gays and lesbians faced hostility as well; large numbers were railroaded out of the service midwar […]

    2015, John M[atthew] Kinder, Paying With Their Bodies: American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 268
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    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

Origin

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APA

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MLA

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