home front
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- home-front adjective
Etymology
Origin of home front
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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Their mission is to make sure that fighting never hits the home front, he said—and that can require long and stressful deployments.
“I look at what’s happening on the home front and internationally, and I worry; and I am still convinced there are more good people out there than the other kind.”
From Los Angeles Times
Not for us on the home front, where we watched them in six-minute segments on CNN and the evening news that aired between commercials for credit cards.
From Salon
Betty Reid Soskin, who rose to national prominence as the National Park Service’s oldest ranger and shared her experiences of racial segregation working on the World War II home front, has died.
From Los Angeles Times
It was simply on a different field—the home front.
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