weaponeer
English
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editweaponeer (plural weaponeers)
- (US) Someone who makes weapons, especially nuclear weapons.
- Synonym: armsmaker
- 2012, George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral, Penguin, published 2013, page 57:
- 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.
- A member of an aircrew responsible for the weapons.
Related terms
edit- (maker of weapons): weaponsmith
Verb
editweaponeer (third-person singular simple present weaponeers, present participle weaponeering, simple past and past participle weaponeered)