单词 | arms buildup |
释义 | > as lemmasarms buildup a. With the sense ‘of, relating to, or involving arms’, as arms broker, arms buildup, arms cache, arms fair, arms industry, arms merchant, arms purchase, etc. ΚΠ 1807 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 960/1 [He] explained, that the Arms Bill had not in view to disarm the great mass of the people, but only those who were rebels. 1895 R. Kipling Out of India iv. 30 Into this world sometimes breaks the Anglo-Indian returned from leave... The old arms seller knows and avoids him. 1900 Forester Feb. 46 The gunstocks are to be shipped to an arms firm in New York. 1916 H. J. Newbolt Tales Great War 234 The airmen succeeded in causing fires in the barracks, the arms depot, the munitions factory, and the railway station. 1920 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 170/1 The trade promised lucrative returns..to..those who had the means of..setting up as arms merchants in Masqat. 1935 Pop. Mech. Oct. 531/1 In ten years he has assembled an arms collection exceeded only by those found in government arsenals. 1942 Rotarian June 19/1 From scratch Australia has built up an arms industry worth 210 million dollars. 1959 Life 20 July 100/2 Our arms purchase from Russia was a commercial transaction, without strings or conditions. 1962 R. E. Quirk Affair of Honor Index 181 Arms shipment to Huerta. 1972 Yearbk. European Convent. Human Rights (Council of Europe) 57 A newspaper report of the discovery of an arms cache. 1987 R. R. McCammon Swan Song i. i. 11 The arms brokers had fed..mad-dog leaders thirsting for power. 1992 Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat & Chron. 29 Dec. a8/3 A whitewasher..condemning Congress for the arms buildup of Saddaam Hussein. 2003 Private Eye 5 Sept. 6/3 The Ministry of Defence is putting £400,000 towards a massive arms fair in East London next week. < as lemmas |
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