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munition
/ˌmjuˈnɪʃən/
noun 3verb 1
Collocations
3VERB + MUNITION
goes
MUNITION + NOUN
factory, wil
PREP.
into
Definitions
noun
1
Materials of war: armaments, weapons and ammunition.
Just as we can say that an English girl who leaves the narrow circle of her old life, and goes into a munition factory and joins a union and takes part in its debates, will never after be a docile home-slave; so we can say that the clergyman who helps in Y. M. C. A. work in France, or in Red Cross organization in America, will be less the bigot and formalist forever after.
2
Bombs, rockets, missiles (complete explosive devices, in contrast to e.g. guns).
3
A tower or fortification.
I wil stand vpon my watch, and fixe my steppe vpon the munition: and I wil behold, to see what may be sayd to me, and what I may answer to him that rebuketh me.
verb
1
To supply with munitions.
Why was I there, munitioning, blacklegging, slaving as though my bread depended on it?
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Synonyms
noun — defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built arou
noun — military supplies
noun — weapons considered collectively
- weaponry
- arms
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Just as we can say that an English girl who leaves the narrow circle of her old life, and goes into a munition factory and joins a union and takes part in its debates, will never after be a docile hom
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I wil stand vpon my watch, and fixe my steppe vpon the munition: and I wil behold, to see what may be sayd to me, and what I may answer to him that rebuketh me.
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Why was I there, munitioning, blacklegging, slaving as though my bread depended on it?
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