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munitions

munitions is the plural of munition.

munitions is the third-person singular simple present indicative of munition.

Meaning of munition

Noun

munition (plural munitions)

  1. (in plural) 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...1917, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion […]
  2. (in plural, NATO) Bombs, rockets, missiles (complete explosive devices, in contrast to e.g. guns).
  3. (obsolete, rare) 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.1610, The Second Tome of the Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Laurence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Habacuc 2:1

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Questions about munitions

What is munitions the plural of?
Munitions is the plural of munition.

Words near munitions in the dictionary

  1. munitionette
  2. munitionettes
  3. munitioning
  4. munitionment
  5. munitionments
  6. munitions
  7. munity
  8. Muniz
  9. Munizes
  10. munj
  11. munja

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