armament
noun/ˈɑːməmənt/
/ˈɑːrməmənt/
- [countable, usually plural] weapons, especially large guns, bombs, tanks, etc.
- the armaments industry
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- [uncountable] the process of increasing the amount of weapons an army or a country has, especially to prepare for war compare disarmament
Word Originlate 17th cent. (in the sense ‘force equipped for war’): from Latin armamentum, from armare ‘to arm’, from arma ‘armour, arms’.
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