warworkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• war-work, warwork

名詞

war-work (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of war work
   • 1995, Gertjan de Groot, ‎Marlou Schrover, Women Workers and Technological Change in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, →ISBN:

     In this instance, this presents a substantial methodological problem precisely because war-work was so unlike much of the industrial employment, not of all women, but of the women who were war-workers.

   • 2000, S. Joshi, Civil War Memories, →ISBN:

     Dorr had finished drill, and come up, as he did every day, to freshen himself with an hour's talk to this warm, blundering fellow. In this dismal war-work, (though his whole soul was in that, too,) it was like putting your hands to a big blaze.

   • 2013, Alan G. V. Simmonds, Britain and World War One, →ISBN, page 161:

     'The “Bloomsburies” were all doing war-work of “National Importance”', commented Percy Wyndham Lewis, 'down in some downy English county, under the wings of powerful pacifist friends; pruning trees, planting goosebury bushes, and haymaking, doubtless in large sunbonnets.