weaponeer
verbEtymology From weapon + -eer.
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Government, Military, Politics, War To provide with appropriate weaponry for use against the chosen targets.
weaponeer
nounUK /wɛpəˈnɪə/
Etymology From weapon + -eer.
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US Someone who makes weapons, especially nuclear weapons.
- Von Neumann, who believed that mathematics grew best when nourished by ‘a certain contact with the strivings and problems of the world,’ became a great friend of the weaponeers.2012, George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral, Penguin, published 2013, page 57:
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A member of an aircrew responsible for the weapons.
- Related terms
- weaponsmith, cannoneer, missileer, musketeer, rocketeer