wartime footing
Nation preparing militarily
Wartime footing describes a state of readiness for war—the mobilization of resources, industry, and personnel as if conflict were imminent or underway.
A nation on a wartime footing redirects civilian production toward military needs and heightens preparedness.
The phrase often appears figuratively: The company put itself on a wartime footing to meet the crisis.
- requisitioningFormally demanding resources
- draftPreliminary version of text
- call to armsUrgent summons to fight
- troop buildupAccumulation of military forces
- mobilizationOrganizing for action
preparedness · conscription · vigilance · war bonds · rationing systems · deployment · civil defense · air raid shelters · combat readiness · home front · logistics · national emergency · emergency powers · resilience · all hands on deck · military · state of war · martial law
wartime footingpeacetime
Absence of armed conflict
demobilization · standing down · disarmament · peace · demilitarization
wartime footingnormalcy
State of being typical
business as usual · standard operating procedure · complacency · status quo · everyday life
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