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home front
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home front
(noun)
home front
noun
home front
noun
Britannica Dictionary definition of HOME FRONT
the home front
:
the people who stay in a country and work while that country's soldiers are fighting in a war in a foreign country
During the war we had to keep up morale
on the home front
. [=keep up morale among the people living and working in our home country]
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