peacetime
of or for such a period: peacetime uses of atomic energy.
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How to use peacetime in a sentence
In return, the Department of Defense doles out peacetime airlift contracts to these airlines, running into tens of millions of dollars per year.
The US is using a Cold War rule to airlift Afghan evacuees | Samanth Subramanian | August 22, 2021 | QuartzIt’s really the worst peacetime recession in history since the Great Depression.
In more peacetime settings, transports that could launch durable scout aircraft could fly to the site of a natural disaster, and then use the drone to see if there is a viable landing area below.
This Airbus prototype could deploy drones from cargo planes | Kelsey D. Atherton | February 24, 2021 | Popular-ScienceHe imagined a megafactory that “companies could use in peacetime” but that could be quickly reoriented to churn out shots during the next pandemic.
The next act for messenger RNA could be bigger than covid vaccines | David Rotman | February 5, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewThey sought to consolidate territorial gains, annex additional lands and insist on America’s “neutral rights” to trade in wartime or peacetime.
Defeating today’s top threats requires rethinking our idea of national security | Melvyn Leffler | January 26, 2021 | Washington Post
Girls in peacetime Want to Dance is a different sound for you.
Which is more than can be said during peace, witness peacetime politics.
Up To A Point: What We Really Need Is a Nobel War Prize | P. J. O’Rourke | October 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went.
The 1 Percent Army: Andrew Bacevich on How America Lost the Military | Phil Klay | September 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTNonetheless, FDR drummed up just enough support in the summer of 1940 to institute the first peacetime draft in American history.
At the same time, the Allies realized that their fellow wartime ally, the Soviet Union, would soon become their peacetime enemy.
America’s Secret Government Program to Hire Nazi War Criminals | Richard Rashke | August 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTFollowing the war Virginia returned to its two great peacetime interests—trade and expansion.
Virginia Under Charles I And Cromwell, 1625-1660 | Wilcomb E. WashburnBikini in 1946 was the scene of the first peacetime tests of atomic weapons.
Atoms, Nature, and Man | Neal O. HinesThe France to which tourists will come after the war will not be the France which peacetime visitors knew.
The Glory of The Coming | Irvin S. CobbIn peacetime, absolute accountability is required, because dollar economy in operations is a main object.
The Armed Forces Officer | U. S. Department of DefenseThis is a process which must be mastered in peacetime, if it is to stand the multiplied strains of war.
The Armed Forces Officer | U. S. Department of Defense
British Dictionary definitions for peacetime
/ (ˈpiːsˌtaɪm) /
a period without war; time of peace
(as modifier): a peacetime agreement
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