war effort

noun

: all that is being done to win a war
He wanted to contribute in some way to the war effort.

Examples of war effort in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web To supporters of Israel’s war effort, there is a direct line between the antisemitism that fueled the Holocaust and the ideology of Hamas, whose attack on Israel made Oct. 7 the deadliest day for Jews since the Nazi genocide. Marc Tracy, New York Times, 3 June 2024 By the time the Yom Kippur War broke out in 1973, there are a lot of evangelicals in Israel that subsequently helped Israel respond to the war effort. Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 26 May 2024 But the war effort was huge, so Convair turned its sights to a more unusual pool of possibilities – fine artists. Carol Roark, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 May 2024 Over 30 women volunteered to drive their own vehicles to transport others to conferences, for house-to-house canvassing, to meetings in Baltimore, and to myriad other activities supporting the war effort. Mary Ann Ashcraft, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for war effort 

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“War effort.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/war%20effort. Accessed 8 Jun. 2024.

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