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ordnance

[ awrd-nuhns ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

cannon or artillery.
military weapons with their equipment, ammunition, etc.
the branch of an army that procures, stores, and issues, weapons, munitions, and combat vehicles and maintains arsenals for their development and testing.

ordnance

/ ˈɔːdnəns /

cannon or artillery
military supplies; munitions
the ordnance
a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies

First recorded in 1620–30; syncopated variant of ordinance

C14: variant of ordinance

“Lack of forward firing ordnance in a CAS supporting aircraft is a major handicap,” he added.

It could have closed off the school until another international organization with ordnance disposal skills secured the area.

The American ordnance crew that had explored it estimated the mine contained 400,000 tons of explosives.

Baker was an explosive ordnance disposal expert and had saved many lives by defusing many IEDs during two tours in Afghanistan.

And nobody needs a 30-round clip of high-velocity, steel-jacketed, armor-piercing ordnance for target shooting.

It contains complete arms for 40,000 men, and there is also a quantity of heavy ordnance.

Colonel Fox, member for Stroud, accepted the Chiltern hundreds in his favour, and became secretary to the ordnance.

During the next four days the enemy replied by a terrific bombardment from their heavy ordnance and gunboats.

Richmond again became master of the ordnance and a little later re-entered the cabinet.

It was, it struck me, from a petronel, or some small piece of ordnance such as merchantmen carried in those days.

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