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

Example Sentences

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missilery

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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And at long last, the President was prevailed upon to break the news blackout that he himself had imposed on the state and progress of American missilery.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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With the Sputniks, Russia took man into a new era of space, and with its advances in the art of missilery, posed the U.S. with the most dramatic military threat it had ever faced.

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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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