munition
[myoo-nish-uh n]
- Usually munitions. materials used in war, especially weapons and ammunition.
- material or equipment for carrying on any undertaking.
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- to provide with munitions.
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Origin of munition
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Examples from the Web for munition
Contemporary Examples
Cargo holds are still stocked with munition, though the weaponry sunk with the ships is still considered dangerous.
Historical Examples
The men are at war, the women in the munition plants and factories.
A Journey Through France in War TimeJoseph G. Butler, Jr.
Why, the munition workers and the forty-shilling-a-week girls.
Women's Wild OatsC. Gasquoine Hartley
The bodies of men, munition, and money, may justly be called the sinews of war.
Pearls of ThoughtMaturin M. Ballou
Tell me some more about the munition works and the Belgian town.
A Patriotic SchoolgirlAngela Brazil
We were staying at Redferne, and Uncle showed us all over the munition works.
A Patriotic SchoolgirlAngela Brazil
munition
- (tr) to supply with munitions
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Word Origin
C16: via French from Latin mūnītiō fortification, from mūnīre to fortify. See ammunition
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Word Origin and History for munition
n.
mid-15c., from Middle French municion "fortification, defense, defensive wall" (14c.), from Latin munitionem (nominative munitio) "a defending, fortification, protecting," noun of action from past participle stem of munire "to fortify," from moenia "defensive walls," related to murus "wall" (see mural). By 1530s the sense had passed through "military stores" to become "ammunition."
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