weaponisation
English
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edit- weaponization (American and Oxford British spelling)
Etymology
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editNoun
editweaponisation (uncountable)
- The act of making something into a weapon or making more effective as a weapon.
- 2007, Michael Sheehan, The International Politics of Space:
- At the dawn of the space age the Eisenhower administration came to the conclusion that the weaponisation of space was not in the interests of the United States.
- 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 278:
- The weaponization of international credit was nothing new, but its deployment in this instance locked Bulgaria into the policy of the Triple Alliance […].