missilery

American  

[mis-uhl-ree] / ˈmɪs əl ri /

Or missilry

noun

1. the science of the construction and use of guided missiles.

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missilery British  

/ ˈmɪsaɪlrɪ /

noun

1. missiles collectively

2. the design, operation, or study of missiles

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Etymology

Origin of missilery

First recorded in 1875–80; missile + -ry

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missilery

Only two of Battery A's 129 men had less than eighth-grade education; 91 had finished high school and nine college; and most had volunteered for missilery to get technical schooling.

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The Russians, well along on missilery with or without an atomic warhead, had a head start that the U.S. urgently needed to narrow.

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Brezhnev has approved increases in the Soviet military budget that have financed an unparalleled improvement in Russian missilery and a vast enlargement of the Soviet navy.

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In the overall considerations of how to avoid war, a balance of missilery can help.

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In the span of the ensuing decade of strategic missilery, the U.S. has accomplished one of the greatest scientific, engineering and construction feats in history.

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