armoury
pronunciation
How to pronounce armoury in British English:
UK [ˈɑːməri]
How to pronounce armoury in American English:
US [ˈɑːrməri]
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- Noun:
- a collection of resources
- all the weapons and equipment that a country has
- a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms
- a place where arms are manufactured
Word Origin
- armoury (n.)
- chiefly British English spelling of armory (q.v.); for suffix, see -or.
Example
- 1. Japan has long been a tool in the party 's political armoury .
- 2. Are we the only ones to make it to the armoury ?
- 3. The russians continue to treat the supply of energy as another weapon in their armoury .
- 4. Under the 32-year dictatorship of suharto , which ended in 1998 , forest concessions became weapons in the armoury of crony capitalism .
- 5. Every villager able to wield a sword has been sent to the armoury .