AMMUNITION

Ammunition

Ammunition is gunpowder and artillery, or broadly anything that can be used in combat including bombs, missiles, warheads, landmines, naval mines, and anti-personnel mines. The word comes from the French la munition which is all material used for war. The collective term for all types of ammunition is munitions.

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ammunition

Noun

  1. Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.
  2. Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense.
  3. Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative.
    Her bad behaviour is giving him ammunition for a divorce.


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