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From war +‎ time.

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wartime (countable and uncountable, plural wartimes)

  1. (often attributive) A period during which a war is in progress in a particular place.
    • 2020 December 2, Industry Insider, “The costs on cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76:

      Significant rail projects have been mothballed before in the face of changed circumstances - in particular, the LNER Woodhead project which was postponed due to wartime conditions and not revived until 1948, as money became available after nationalisation.

period of a war