war footing
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A state of preparedness for waging war.
Example Sentences
- "move to a war footing"
- "The government moved swiftly to place the armed forces on a war footing."
- "After all, it was less than a year and a half ago that Obama promised, in an address at National Defense University, to remove America from the "perpetual war footing" it had assumed since the September 11 attacks."
- "The RMT union has told Network Rail and train operators that it has moved to a "war footing" over planned service and workforce cutbacks."
- "The EU is also now trying to put the European defence industry on to a war footing. Joint procurement of weapons by the European Defence Agency has been introduced for the first time."