"war-work" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} war-work (uncountable)
  1. Alternative form of war work Tags: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Alternative form of: war work
    Sense id: en-war-work-en-noun-zioLKZV5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry
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          "ref": "2000, S. Joshi, Civil War Memories",
          "text": "Dorr had finished drill, and come up, as he did every day, to freshen himself with an hour's talk to this warm, blundering fellow. In this dismal war-work, (though his whole soul was in that, too,) it was like putting your hands to a big blaze.",
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          "ref": "2013, Alan G. V. Simmonds, Britain and World War One, page 161",
          "text": "'The “Bloomsburies” were all doing war-work of “National Importance”', commented Percy Wyndham Lewis, 'down in some downy English county, under the wings of powerful pacifist friends; pruning trees, planting goosebury bushes, and haymaking, doubtless in large sunbonnets.",
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