Noun
a period of time during which there is no war
Source: WordNetBarack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history. Mitt Romney
People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army. Banksy
[it is] amusing all the same, how the peacetime life we cursed and groaned about now elevates itself with iron logic to the status of paradise.. Max Beckmann
You can be assured of this. There will be no increase in the standard or other rates of income tax under the Labour Government so long as normal peacetime conditions continue. Hugh Gaitskell
Better dry bread in peacetime than meat in wartime. Hungarian Proverb
Better to be a dog in peacetime that a man in wartime. Chinese Proverb