peacetime
- noun
- /ˈpiːsˌtaɪm/
- During peacetime, countries focus on building strong economies and international partnerships.
- peacetime military
- peacetime alliances
- peacetime policy
And we've now contracted a debt of enormous size, bigger than anything ever done in peacetime before.
- And we've now contracted a debt of enormous size, bigger than anything ever done in peacetime before.
- And so most Christian pastors, denominations, networks and ministries, they were built in and for peacetime.
- Replicate in peacetime the ideal of total military mobilization in wartime.
- Never in the in in peacetime, never has that metric existed before.
- It's just impossible, impossible to understate how much we take for granted when we're in when we're in peacetime.
Examples
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Instead, we had the greatest and longest peacetime expansion of the economy in history.
Blog text (13) -
Oh, we face the unknown in peacetime, too.
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But the army has a critical regional role to play in peacetime as well.
Academic text (2012) -
The responsibilities of peacetime must now be considered.
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In peacetime, there are no secrets in science.
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We need to know what the relationship is between peacetime and wartime.
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After World War II, there was an effort to convert some of the powerful technologies that had been developed as part of the war effort to peacetime uses.
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We inherited the biggest budget deficit in Britain's peacetime history.
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That's why it is sometimes billed as the largest peacetime tax increase in American history.
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Peacetime makes people soft.
Synonyms
A time when countries or groups do not fight
Antonyms
How Peaceful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Peacetime is simply peace + time, meaning a 'time' when there is 'peace'. That's why peacetime means a period with no war, the opposite of wartime.