"war effort" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: war efforts [plural]
Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: countable, uncountable Related terms: war economy Translations (Translations): военно усилие (voenno usilie) (Bulgarian), militpeno (Esperanto), militklopodoj (Esperanto), sotatoimi (Finnish), sotaponnistelu (Finnish), effort de guerre [masculine] (French), Kriegsanstrengung [feminine, in-plural] (German), esforço de guerra (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-war_effort-en-noun-sGT93~hV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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