armament meaning

• Noun: armament  aa(r)mumunt
  1. Weaponry used by military or naval force 
  2. The act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war
     - arming, equipping

  Derived forms: armaments

  See also: arm

  Type of: arms, implements of war, militarisation [Brit], militarization, mobilisation [Brit], mobilization, munition, weaponry, weapons system

  Antonym: disarmament

  Encyclopedia: Armament

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Examples

1. the country 's armament will take years.
2. many such targets were strategic, such as armaments factories.
3. this is less in total than the cost of world's armament for a single year.
4. he designed armaments and instructed governmental staff in technical matters.
5. as men do not live by bread alone, they do not fight by armaments alone.