armamentnoun
uk/ˈɑː.mə.mənt/us/ˈɑːr.mə.mənt/[ U ] the process of increasing the number and strength of a country's weapons:
As the country prepares for war, more and more money is being spent on armament.
armaments [ plural ]
weapons or military equipment:
the country's armaments programme
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Providing weapons or taking weapons away
- arm
- armed
- arms control
- arms race
- bare
- capability
- decommission
- disarm
- disarmament
- gun control
- militarized
- nuclear-free
- pack
- peace dividend
- rearm
- reinforce
- tooled up
- unarmed
- under arms idiom
- with your bare hands idiom
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Arms & munitions in general