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peacetime

[pees-tahym]

noun

  1. a time times or period of peace.

    a large navy even in peacetime.



adjective

  1. of or for such a period.

    peacetime uses of atomic energy.

peacetime

/ ˈ辱ːˌٲɪ /

noun

    1. a period without war; time of peace

    2. ( as modifier )

      a peacetime agreement

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of peacetime1

First recorded in 1545–55; peace + time
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Ms Logan was the second female firefighter to die on duty in peacetime, after Fleur Lombard, 21, died in Bristol in 1996.

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The crash on 2 June 1994 remains one of the RAF's worst peacetime losses of life.

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And then, just like the wartime industries of L.A., the peacetime ports swiveled to more commercial operations.

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The Heron, say experts, is India's "high-altitude eyes in the sky" for both peacetime monitoring and combat operations.

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We now live in an era that can be safely summarized as the end of science's peacetime, and perhaps the end of the general eminence of once mighty institutions of higher learning.

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