Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The weapons and supplies of war with which a military unit is equipped.
- noun All the military forces and war equipment of a country.
- noun A military force equipped for war.
- noun The process of arming for war.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A body of forees equipped for war: used of a land or naval force.
- noun Munitions of war; especially, the number and weight of all the guns which a ship of war carries.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force.
- noun (Mil. & Nav.) All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.
- noun Any equipment for resistance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A body of forces equipped for war.
- noun military, naval All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.
- noun Any equipment for resistance.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war
- noun weaponry used by military or naval force
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Again, not knocking it or anybody's taste in armament, just wanting to better understand.
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Again, not knocking it or anybody's taste in armament, just wanting to better understand.
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Emmanual: While I believe that nuclear armament is the most illogical concept ever devised by mankind, the statement above makes nuclear arms logical.
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KELLY: Founder Hendrick Slabbinck kept the company going during World war II, when many Belgian workers were used in German armament factories as forced labor.
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The non-governmental sector is just as qualified as the "experts" or those who have a vested interest in armament and war.
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Just as the questions relating to disarmament are usually left to military experts and to those with a vested interest in armament, these questions are also usually regarded as the exclusive prerogative of men.
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After some resesigning for counterinsurgency warfare and changes in armament, the craft was rechris - tened A-26A.
Guillermin, Louis F. 1968
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After some resesigning for counterinsurgency warfare and changes in armament, the craft was rechris - tened A-26A.
Pietsch, Robert E. 1968
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If more and more irritations are ameliorated by negotiation, the evidence of adequacy in armament becomes cumulative.
One Bite At A Time 1953
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The main armament of a submarine, of course, is her torpedoes, but they are big valuable things of which one may not have more than a dozen or so on board and heaven knows when it will be possible to get back to harbour to replenish them.
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