arsenal

American  

[ahr-suh-nl, ahrs-nuhl] / ˈɑr sə nl, ˈɑrs nəl /

noun

1. a place of storage or a magazine containing arms and military equipment for land or naval service.

2. a government establishment where military equipment or munitions are manufactured.

3. a collection or supply of weapons or munitions.

4. a collection or supply of anything; store.

   He came to the meeting with an impressive arsenal of new research data.

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arsenal British  

/ ˈɑːsənəl /

noun

1. a store for arms, ammunition, and other military items

2. a workshop or factory that produces munitions

3. a store of anything regarded as weapons

   an arsenal of destructive arguments

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Etymology

Origin of arsenal

1500–10; (< Middle French ) < Italian arzanale < Upper Italian ( Venetian ) arzanà dockyard < Arabic dār ṣināʿah workshop (literally, house of handwork); initial d probably taken as a form of the preposition di from

Example Sentences

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has also said he is open to talks with Washington, provided Pyongyang is allowed to keep its nuclear arsenal.

From Barron's

At the start of the war Ukraine mostly relied on its old Soviet-era arsenal.

From BBC

In the past, Saad had served as the head of Hamas’s operations division in Gaza, overseeing production of its rocket arsenal and construction of military infrastructure like tunnels and command centers, Milshtein said.

From The Wall Street Journal

China has one of the world’s largest missile arsenals and unrivaled industrial strength to buoy forces in a protracted war.

From The Wall Street Journal

It is looking to startups, with no experience but billions of dollars backing them, to fill an increasingly glaring hole in the national arsenal.

From The Wall Street Journal