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war footing en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A state of preparedness for waging war.
   • 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. 2023 September 30, Patrick Wintour, “‘No turning back’: how the Ukraine war has profoundly changed the EU”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
   • 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. 2014 September 11, Uri Friedman, “Is It Peacetime or Wartime in America?”, in The Atlantic:
   • move to a war footing
   • The RMT union has told Network Rail and train operators that it has moved to a "war footing" over planned service and workforce cutbacks. 2021 September 8, “Network News: RMT on "war footing" in response to workforce cutback threats”, in RAIL, number 939, page 15:

Forms

Relateds

on the warpath

Translations (10)

pl stan gotowości (state of preparedness for waging war) · fr sur le pied de guerre (on a war footing) · fi sotajalka (state of preparedness for waging war) · es en pie de guerra (on a war footing) · de Kriegsfuß (state of preparedness for waging war) · it sul piede di guerra (on a war footing) · de auf Kriegsfuß (on a war footing) · nl op voet van oorlog (on a war footing) · pt em pé de guerra (on a war footing) · ru на тропе́ войны́ (on a war footing)