war work

English

Alternative forms

• war-work, warwork

Noun

war work (uncountable)

1. Work for an organization other than the military that supports a country's war activities.
   • 1943 March and April, John R. Hind, “The British Railways at War”, in Railway Magazine, page 95:

     Carriages have been converted into ambulance trains; railway workshops have made guns, tanks, aeroplanes and other war equipment, and railway steamships have done their full share of war work on Admiralty service.

   • 2012, M. Joannou, The History of British Women's Writing, 1920-1945, →ISBN:

     A more conventional idea of war work formed the basis of much women's documentary writing.

   • 2013, James Riordan, When The Guns Fall Silent, →ISBN:

     Lots of girls are doing war work, making guns and ammo, driving trams and trains, nursing, that sort of thing.

   • 2014, Gilda O'Neill, Bells Of Bow, →ISBN:

     Blanche had begged Ted Jenner to try and get him work in the docks, loading supplies or anything that Archie would consider proper, worthwhile warwork, but it was no use, there was nothing for him there.