wartime experience

collocation in English

meaningsofwartimeandexperience

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wartime
noun[U]
uk
/ˈwɔː.taɪm/us
/ˈwɔːr.taɪm/
a period of time during which a war is ...
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experience
noun
uk
/ɪkˈspɪə.ri.əns/us
/ɪkˈspɪr.i.əns/
(the process of getting) knowledge or skill from doing, seeing, or ...
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(Definition ofwartimeandexperiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Equally,wartimeexperiencehad an influence on the development of economics as a discipline that has been given little attention.
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Theirwartimeexperienceinspired them to focus more on social action and practical solutions to specific problems.
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Or did thewartimeexperiencechange what you would have done?
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Whatever the claims of analysts who ascribe integration support towartimeexperience, these data do not support such a link.
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Theirwartimeexperiencemay have changed them, their mindset and their behaviour, but there is little in their background to single them out as a particular group.
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Thiswartimeexperiencehad long-term consequences.
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Ourwartimeexperiencedoes not support the view that deer forests are a potential source for a great expansion of agricultural activities in peacetime.
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The old argument that we should concentrate on localities where traditional engineering skill is high has been disproved by ourwartimeexperience.
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Ourwartimeexperienceproved the necessity of so doing.
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The courts will thus have the advantage of theirwartimeexperience.
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However, thatwartimeexperienceof mine has remained with me.
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I know that from my ownwartimeexperience.
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Women ofwartimeexperience, of industry and of the services came into the classrooms.
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This is setting up a new administrative service, continuingwartimeexperience, and it may be a very costly one.
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One thinks ofwartimeexperience, and indeed there are examples, though not enough, in the current industrial scene.
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I do not think thatwartimeexperienceis necessarily the same as that which we would have now.
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Let us look at thewartimeexperiencewhen there was legislation containing penal provisions, and which put a number of trade unionists in prison.
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I also respect his knowledge of these matters from hiswartimeexperience.
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For this, therefore, something different is required, to which ourwartimeexperiencemay provide a clue.
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But if it is not acceptable and workablewartimeexperienceshows that it can be highly divisive.
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