war effort

English

Noun

war effort (countable and uncountable, plural war efforts)

1. A coordinated mobilisation of a country's resources, both industrial and human, in support of its military forces during a war.
   • 1946 January and February, “Notes and News: Demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 52:

     During the war, but unrecorded because of the requirements of censorship, a link with the now partly-abandoned Cardiff Railway disappeared with the demolition of Rhydyfelin Viaduct, near Treforest, South Wales, in the latter part of 1942. The steelwork in this structure, amounting to nearly 1,150 tons, was salvaged as scrap metal to assist the war effort.

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 161:

     Curwen had inherited a printing business in Plaistow, east London. In 1915 the government appealed for scrap metal to help the war effort. Curwen gazed at the 'clever, fussy, pretentious Victorian typefaces spread about his composing room floor' and felt a wave of revulsion. He sent away more than 200 founts of type, retaining just one plain one, Caslon Old Face.

Translations

Translations

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: военно усилие (voenno usilie)
• Esperanto: militpeno, militklopodoj
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: sotatoimi (fi), sotaponnistelu
• French: effort de guerre (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Kriegsanstrengung (de) f (chiefly in the plural)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: not used in Polish
• Portuguese: esforço de guerra
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

See also

• war economy

Further reading

• “war effort”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “war effort” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “war effort” (US) / “war effort” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.