wartime

CEFRB1

/ˈwɔː(ɹ)taɪm/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
A period when a country is at war.
02
noun
Extra detail
A period during which a war is in progress in a particular place.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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But, she says, a wartime ban on recordings using shellac and vinyl kept the Walker version from being released.

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But, she says, a wartime ban on recordings using shellac and vinyl kept the Walker version from being released.
2002 April 29, Norman Pearlstine, “A Month Of Mondays If that doesn't give you the blues, nothing will. Norman Pearlstine ranks his favorite versions of the classic "Stormy Monday...
Significant rail projects have been mothballed before in the face of changed circumstances - in particular, the LNER Woodhead project which was postponed due to wartime conditions and not revived until 1948, as money became available after nationalisation.
2020 December 2, Industry Insider, “The costs on cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76

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