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ammunition

[am-yuh-nish-uhn]

noun

  1. the material fired, scattered, dropped, or detonated from any weapon, as bombs or rockets, and especially shot, shrapnel, bullets, or shells fired by guns.

  2. the means of igniting or exploding such material, as primers, fuzes, and gunpowder.

  3. any material, means, weapons, etc., used in any conflict.

    a crude ammunition of stones.

  4. information, advice, or supplies to help defend or attack a viewpoint, argument, or claim.

    Give me some ammunition for the debate.

  5. Obsolete.any military supplies.



ammunition

/ ˌæʊˈɪʃə /

noun

  1. any projectiles, such as bullets, rockets, etc, that can be discharged from a weapon

  2. bombs, missiles, chemicals, biological agents, nuclear materials, etc, capable of use as weapons

  3. any means of defence or attack, as in an argument

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of ammunition1

1620–30; < Middle French amonitions, amunitions (plural) military supplies ( a- a- 5 + munition < Latin; munition ), or < French la munition, wrongly analyzed as l'amunition
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of ammunition1

C17: from obsolete French amunition, by mistaken division from earlier la munition; see munition
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They seized a box containing four "lethal" self-loading pistols, each individually packaged with a silencer, blue nitrile gloves and 10 rounds of live ammunition.

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"We have suspended direct exports of F-35 parts for use by Israel, and we categorically do not export any bombs or ammunition which could be used in Gaza," added the spokesperson.

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Instead, young California guardsmen, each given 20 rounds of ammunition, marched to the Bay amid a jeering crowd, took a ferry to Oakland and tried to get to Sacramento by train.

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Still pending is a separate lawsuit by Mexico in U.S. federal court accusing five gun dealers in Arizona of trafficking weapons and ammunition to the cartels.

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Senior Western military chiefs have long been warning the UK would quickly run out of ammunition in the event of a war.

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