disarmament

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Etymology

From disarm +‎ -ment, modeled after armament.[1] By surface analysis, dis +‎ armament.

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disarmament (countable and uncountable, plural disarmaments)

  1. The reduction or the abolition of the military forces and armaments of a nation, and of its capability to wage war.
  2. The act of disarming an opponent in a fight.
    • 1974, Black Belt, volume 12, number 11, page 15:
      With spears, swords and knives flying off the stage from intended defensive disarmament, no one sitting near the stage could afford to even blink his eyes.

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  1. ^ John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “disarmament”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
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