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war time
1. The time when war is being waged.
1387Trevisa Higden VIII. 283 The woodes in Wales.., þat were grete socour to men of þe contray to hyde hem self in werre tyme. 1445tr. Claudian in Anglia XXVIII. 271 Whom than thou makist not riche Whan werre tyme is and whan pees is, þou list not hem to knowe. 1545R. Ascham Toxoph. i. Wks. (1904) 59 When he shalbe..compelled in war tyme..to faule to his bowe. 1707Mortimer Husb. 33 The Seed coming from France, this War-time hath prevented its being so much propagated as otherways it would have been. 1831Scott Cast. Dang. i, Above all, it was war-time, and of necessity all circumstances of mere convenience were obliged to give way to a paramount sense of danger. 1849C. Brontë Shirley ii, These war times were hard, and everything was dear. 1851Kingsley Yeast xiii, There was too much filthiness and drunkenness went on in the old war-times, not to leave a taint behind it, for many a generation.
attrib.1915H. H. Henson (title), War-time Sermons. 1915Lady Jephson (title), A War-time Journal. 1922C. E. Montague Disenchantment viii. 121 Men's friends at home would have the agonies of false alarms added to their normal wartime miseries. 1935D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night ii. 30 The present lot are the real War-time generation. 1945ABC of Cookery (Ministry of Food) 1 It is intended to be used with the Ministry of Food Recipe Leaflets although it is not restricted to war⁓time cookery. 1965New Statesman 7 May 709/3 Without the exigencies of war, he would need to have war-time powers. But he would lack..the simple war-time criterion of the need ‘to maintain production’. 1978Cadogan & Craig Women & Children First viii. 179 Tilli is..suffering wartime shortages bitterly.
2. U.S. Hist. Daylight-saving time introduced during World War II (see quots.).
1942Time 9 Feb. 12/3 Franklin Roosevelt decided what he will call wartime daylight saving when it starts next week. Official name: War Time. 1979Sci. Amer. May 39/3 Year-round daylight-saving time, or ‘war-time’, as it was named by President Roosevelt, began on February 9, 1942. |