wartime

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Peace
anti-war
conflict transformation
dove
dovish
hold out/offer an olive branchidiom
non-aggression
non-defence
non-violent
non-violently
pacific
pacifist
pacifistically
peace
peace accord
peace-loving
peaceably
peacefully
peacefulness
peacekeeping
truce

Examples from literature

As knowledge of poisons grew, they started to be used in peacetime too, for example as punishment. 

peacetime | American Dictionary

peacetime
noun[ U ]
us/ˈpisˌtɑɪm/
a period when a country is not at war

Examples of peacetime

peacetime
Less obvious were the difficulties in returning to peacetime attitudes and morality after six years of war.
We're firemen in peacetime and soldiers when we're attacked.
As mentioned earlier, there were differences between wartime and peacetime cinema; indeed two distinct themes emerge in post-war rural films.
The peacetime army relied more on foreigners, but particularly on older men from artisanal backgrounds.
Most need to find their place in a peacetime economy, and civilians, many of whom suffered greatly from the violence, must agree to accept them.
In other words, while civilians generally accepted that ex-combatants needed assistance to reintegrate into peacetime society, many viewed the imbalance in assistance as an injustice.
As manufacturers looked to new marketing techniques to reconvert wartime production to match peacetime demand, public policy-makers also adjusted to peace.
The concern to reconstruct gender in peacetime stems from the gendered uncertainties imposed by war.
Lacking the motivations of nationalism or the simple desire for wartime adventure, peacetime recruiting officers found a readier audience among different groups.
The history of prices, prior to 1939, was that these normally remained stable during peacetime.
Navies, being more equipment-dependent than armies, were less capable of improvisation, and had a proportionately higher profile in peacetime than manpower-dependent armies.
The naval celebrations of this era were a central medium in the active promotion of peacetime service reputations.
For the first time, large numbers of civilians could become ' casualties ' in peacetime.
In peacetime this would be the purchase price of a small family saloon.
In peacetime, too, offenders enjoyed the mercy of the authorities.
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