wartime economy

collocation in English

meaningsofwartimeandeconomy

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wartime
noun[U]
uk
/ˈwɔː.taɪm/us
/ˈwɔːr.taɪm/
a period of time during which a war is ...
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economy
noun
uk
/iˈkɒn.ə.mi/us
/iˈkɑː.nə.mi/
the system of trade and industry by which the wealth of a country is made ...
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(Definition ofwartimeandeconomyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Given the best will in the world towards petits producteurs, it is hard to see how the government could have spun gold out of the straw of awartimeeconomy.
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The lighting is on awartimeeconomystandard.
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The past seven years have seen the largest and most sustained fall in the ratio since the unwinding of thewartimeeconomy.
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Nobody is going to deny that re-armament will make a movement towards awartimeeconomyas opposed to a peacetime economy.
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So far aswartimeeconomywas concerned, yes, but never in the peacetime economy.
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Obviously the transition from the controls of awartimeeconomytowards liberalisation and an ambitious reconstruction programme has imposed many strains.
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It was closed as awartimeeconomymeasure between 1917 and 1919.
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The latter was cut as awartimeeconomymeasure in 1940 and not resumed.
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Thewartimeeconomyrelied heavily upon the large-scale employment of forced labourers.
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Some items were hard to locate, while others were in short supply in thewartimeeconomy.
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It was closed for the whole of 1917 and 1918 as awartimeeconomymeasure.
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About the same number served in civil aerial defense, 400,000 volunteered as nurses, and many more replaced drafted men in thewartimeeconomy.
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The halt closed in 1915 as awartimeeconomy, but remained intact until at least 1931.
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The station was closed, as were others, in 1916 as awartimeeconomymeasure, and was not re-opened.
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They also replaced men in thewartimeeconomy, especially on farms and in small family-owned shops.
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The goal of the act was to prevent inflation in the booming, fully employedwartimeeconomyby setting price controls nationwide.
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In the event, the halt remained open only for seven years, closing in 1915 as awartimeeconomymeasure.
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The station closed in 1941, when passenger services were withdrawn from the line due towartimeeconomymeasures, and was not reopened.
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Individual proprietors fell to the expansion of corporations who could master the large-scale production and efficient transportation that thewartimeeconomycalled for.
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