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disarmament definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: act of reducing or depriving of arms; "the disarmament of the aggressor nations must be complete" [syn: disarming, disarmament] [ant: armament, arming, equipping]

Merriam Webster's

noun see disarm

U.S. Military Dictionary

The reduction of a military establishment to some level set by international agreement. See also arms control agreement.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. the reduction by a State of its military forces and weapons.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Disarmament Dis*arm"a*ment, n. [Cf. F. d['e]sarmement.] The act of disarming.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Disarmament is the act of reducing the number of weapons, especially nuclear weapons, that a country has. ...the pace of nuclear disarmament.