war-time

A form of wartime — A period during which a war is in progress in a particular place.

Meanings

nounwar-time (countable and uncountable, plural war-times)

plural war-times

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of wartime.

    Wholesale trade was also for the most part private, particularly in Czechoslovakia where war-time destruction had not been great, and gave rise to considerable profits.

    1972, Dorothy W. Douglas with Lynn Turgeon, chapter XV, in Transitional Economic Systems, The Polish-Czech Example, New York and London: Monthly Review Press, page 318
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