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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wartime
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
ally
▪ There was some degree of goodwill toward the Soviet Union as a wartime ally.
▪ The wartime allies had distinguished Berlin as a special zone of occupation, divided into four sectors.
experience
▪ His parents blame the effects of his wartime experience.
▪ Although I was unable to talk about my wartime experiences, stories of others helped me immensely.
▪ His parents say he's still affected by his wartime experience.
▪ Lina has talked of his wartime experiences, and yes, he was reported missing.
▪ Despite the problems revealed by wartime experience, gasifiers have tantalised researchers since the early 1970s.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I longed for a bar of chocolate, but this was wartime, and such luxuries were not available.
▪ the importance of secrecy in wartime
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A swift wartime courtship, a deep passionate love of a few weeks, then marriage, separation and death.
▪ It was only a small gathering in a studio, but in wartime those were great occasions.
▪ Men shot themselves in the foot, like in wartime.
▪ Military technology changes dramatically in wartime, in response to experience on the battlefield.
▪ Several wartime reconstruction working parties in the Ministry had outlined plans for reorganisation very similar to those adopted by the Labour Government.
▪ The division of responsibility was based upon past historical connections and more recent wartime involvement with particular areas of concern.
Wiktionary
wartime

alt. A period during which a war is in progress in a particular place. n. A period during which a war is in progress in a particular place.

WordNet
wartime

n. a period of time during which there is armed conflict

Wikipedia
Wartime

wartime may refer to:

  • Wartime, Saskatchewan, a small community in Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Wartime, a formal state of war, as opposed to peacetime
  • Wartime (Doctor Who), a 1987 science fiction film spin-off of the TV series Doctor Who
  • Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, a 1989 book by Paul Fussell
Wartime (Doctor Who)

Wartime is the title of a short science fiction film, produced direct-to-video in 1987 by Reeltime Pictures. It was the first professionally produced, authorised independent spin-off of the long-running TV series Doctor Who, and the only such production to be made while the originating TV series was still on the air (it ended in 1989).

Produced and directed by Keith Barnfather and written by Andy Lane and Helen Stirling, Wartime followed the adventures of Warrant Officer John Benton of the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce a.k.a. UNIT. During a mission for UNIT leader Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, Benton visits his childhood home where ghosts of the past rise up to haunt him. John Levene, who played Benton on Doctor Who off-and-on between 1968 and 1975, reprised the role for the film. In 1997, a revised version of the film was released, adding a voice-only cameo by Nicholas Courtney as the Brigadier.

Although the British Broadcasting Corporation owns the rights to Doctor Who and its lead characters, Reeltime was able to obtain permission from Derrick Sherwin, creator of Benton and UNIT, to use both entities in this film so long as the Doctor was not mentioned. This set a precedent that led to further independently made spin-offs featuring former companions of the Doctor, and alien races from the show, which would be released over the following decade; ultimately an independent company, Big Finish Productions, would in the late 1990s receive a licence from the BBC to produce officially sanctioned Doctor Who-based productions.

The fact Benton is a warrant officer, having been promoted in the first Fourth Doctor serial, Robot, places it after that serial, but presumably prior to his departure from UNIT in the late 1970s as revealed in the serial Mawdryn Undead.

In September 2015, the film was released on DVD

Usage examples of "wartime".

Here Ernie had lived with his mother and father, and down these alleys Doris and Penelope and Nancy had come on wartime winter afternoons, to call on old Mrs.

Sarai had long since decided that those tales were just leftover lies, wartime propaganda, but now she wondered whether there might be some truth to the legends, and whether Tabaea might have made some ghastly bargain with creatures no sane demonologist would dare approach.

Sarai had long since decided that those tales were just left-over lies, wartime propaganda, but now she wondered whether there might be some truth to the legends, and whether Tabaea might have made some ghastly bargain with creatures no sane demonologist would dare approach.

When Germany defaulted in deliveries of timber, the hardheaded French Premier, who had been the wartime President of France, ordered French troops to occupy the Ruhr.

And all of wartime France has barely enough kerosine to fuel the jet on two short missions.

By 1970, forced to adapt their migratory habits to wartime, more than a third of the Hmong in Laos had become refugees within their own country.

Then he moves to Mobile, where he begins a long and bitter dispute with Joe Johnston, their wartime feud now expanding.

Of the great heroes of the forties, only the stalwarts at NationalSuperman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and a few of their cohortssoldiered on with any regularity or commercial clout, and even they had been forced to suffer the indignity of seeing their wartime sales cut in half or more, of receiving second billing in titles where formerly they headlined, or of having forced upon them by increasingly desperate writers various attention-getting novelties and gimmicks, from fifteen different shades and flavors of Kryptonite to Bat-Hounds, Bat-Monkeys, and a magical-powered little elf-eared nudnick known as the Bat-Mite.

Their coffee was made of sweet potatoes, just as in wartime, and once or twice her father had been obliged to write his sermons in pokeberry juice.

The next day, posters appeared to announce that the Premier of France, having consulted with His Majesty by telegraph, was appointing for the city of Paris a military governor, to be in charge of public law and order, safety and welfare, for the duration of the wartime emergency.

The Dawntime tribes elected magistrates called Vergobreti to administer their laws and to speak for the wartime assemblies.

During this time, White Castle lost its lead in the fast-food industry, barely surviving wartime shortages and restrictions.

Even though his company had managed to survive the economic ravages of the Depression, the combination of wartime labor and commodity shortages were devastating White Castle.

With wartime censorship laws still in effect, Western Union and the other commercial telegraph companies were required to pass on both coded and uncoded telegrams to U.

Holmes stole into the next cramped room, which was filled with wartime accoutrements, carefully arranged and displayed, but one object drew his attention immediately: a saber, dangling from the wall.