peacetime

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[U] a period of time when a country is not at war: Even in peacetime, much of the budget was devoted to military expenditure. compareWARTIME

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peacetimeEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary peacetimeEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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PC p.d.q.PE pea peace peaceable peace dividend peaceful peacekeeping peace-loving peacemaker

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