ordnance
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.
Origin of ordnance
1Words that may be confused with ordnance
- ordinance, ordnance , ordonnance
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How to use ordnance in a sentence
Matthew Clark, the Executive Director of the conservative Alabama Center for Law and Liberty sent a letter on behalf of his group and six allied organizations asking the Council to abandon a vote implementing the ordnance.
Conservative groups attack proposed Alabama capital city’s LGBTQ law | Brody Levesque | July 22, 2021 | Washington BladeFor those working on explosive ordnance disposal team, the ability to roll a tracked machine into place, and then use a robotic claw to manipulate a suspected bomb or improvised explosive device, is key.
We say in the military, “when you release ordnance and people die, everything changes.”
This inspired the “270 Million Project,” some of whose proceeds will go toward removing unexploded ordnance .
In the galleries: Personal and political perspectives on the past | Mark Jenkins | February 19, 2021 | Washington Post“Lack of forward firing ordnance in a CAS supporting aircraft is a major handicap,” he added.
New U.S. Stealth Jet Can’t Fire Its Gun Until 2019 | Dave Majumdar | December 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
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.
The Real Monuments Men: The Coronation Chamber of Hitler | Robert Edsel | February 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBaker 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.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferColonel Fox, member for Stroud, accepted the Chiltern hundreds in his favour, and became secretary to the ordnance.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. NolanDuring the next four days the enemy replied by a terrific bombardment from their heavy ordnance and gunboats.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. | William HuntRichmond again became master of the ordnance and a little later re-entered the cabinet.
The Political History of England - Vol. X. | William HuntIt was, it struck me, from a petronel, or some small piece of ordnance such as merchantmen carried in those days.
Hurricane Hurry | W.H.G. Kingston
British Dictionary definitions for ordnance
/ (ˈɔːdnəns) /
cannon or artillery
military supplies; munitions
the ordnance a department of an army or government dealing with military supplies
Origin of ordnance
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