Crossword clues for munitions
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
munitions
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
factory
▪ The munitions factory in Hereford seemed to be the only concession to it.
▪ In 1943 he was seconded from the army to advise on how to reorganize the munitions factories.
▪ During the war, Phillip worked for the government, helping with labour supply for munitions factories.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the manufacture of munitions
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ According to Greenpeace, 1,100 tons of munitions were dumped at the site in 1991 and 8,400 tons thus far this year.
▪ Artillery munitions were an even larger problem.
▪ In 1918-19 he was chairman of the inter-allied conference on standardization of aircraft components and deputy member of the munitions council.
▪ Of special importance, the Air Force also delivered more than nine out of ten of all the precision-guided munitions.
▪ One of the targets, a munitions depot, went up in a spectacular display of fireworks.
▪ There had been an enormous increase in the accuracy and destructiveness of all munitions, owing to the introduction of information technologies.
Wiktionary
munitions
n. (plural of munition English)
WordNet
munitions
n. military supplies [syn: ordnance, ordnance stores]