war footing
English
Alternative forms
- wartime footing
Noun
war footing
- A state of preparedness for waging war.
- on a war footing
- move to a war footing
- 2014 September 11, Uri Friedman, “Is It Peacetime or Wartime in America?”, in The Atlantic:
- After all, it was less than a year and a half ago that Obama promised, in an address at National Defense University, to remove America from the "perpetual war footing" it had assumed since the September 11 attacks.
- 2021 September 8, “Network News: RMT on "war footing" in response to workforce cutback threats”, in RAIL, number 939, page 15:
- The RMT union has told Network Rail and train operators that it has moved to a "war footing" over planned service and workforce cutbacks.
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See also
- on the warpath
References
- “war footing”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- “on a war footing”, in Collins English Dictionary.