rearmamentn.
/ˌriːˈɑːməm(ə)nt/, /rɪˈɑːməm(ə)nt/, U.S. /riˈɑrməm(ə)nt/ Military.
The act or process of rearming; a re-equipment with weapons. Also figurative (see also Moral Rearmament n.).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > [noun]
armingc1330
weaponing1590
armament1699
rearmament1769
munitionment1915
weaponizing1967
weaponization1969
1769 W. Anderson Hist. France II. v. v. 253 The station he sought, for the repose of his troops, the re-armament of the dissipated parties of the protestants, [etc.].
1841 Times 8 July 6/3 The brigs Alerte, Palinure, and Cerf, and the Styx steamer (then in progress of re-armament at Toulon), were intended for the station of the Brazils.
1870 Observer 13 Nov. The revictualment of Paris is more important than the rearmament of France.
1938 Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 60/2 In Great Britain the economic consequences of rearmament are..rather intangible and remote.
1953 Amer. Econ. Rev. 43 189 We need intellectual and spiritual rearmament.
1990 Foreign Affairs 69 v. 60 India's substantial rearmament program (begun after the disastrous border war with China in 1962).
2002 T. Nairn Pariah 152 He has forged a clumsy substitute, an ‘Axis of Evil’ justifying both rearmament and Godly values.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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