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单词 on the home front
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on the home front
With the. The civilian life and population of a country which is engaged in military conflict elsewhere, regarded as another front in a consolidated war effort. Frequently in on the home front: at home, domestically. Later also in extended use.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adverb] > in or to native land
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down home1857
on the home front1917
1917 Times 11 Apr. 5/6 The unity of the fighting front and the home front [in Germany] ought to be still more thoroughly understood by us.
1919 Punch's Hist. Great War 19 The trials..on the home front.
1943 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 24 Jan. 3/1 The ‘Rosie the Riveters’, ‘Winnie the Welders’, and other women war workers fighting on the home front.
1959 Encounter July 79/2 Myths of Soviet home-front propaganda.
1976 Maclean's 28 June 52 Afghanistanism..is a malady that encourages pontification on problems far distant while conveniently ignoring the home front.
1986 J. M. Hussey Orthodox Church in Byzantine Empire i. viii. 224 Michael VIII..seemed to have hoped to push through the union without provoking opposition on the home front.
2001 Chicago Tribune 14 Dec. iii. 3/6 Consumers are preoccupied with 9/11 and the war abroad, and with economic weakness on the home front.
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