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Definitions for disarmament
dɪsˈɑr mə məntdis·ar·ma·ment

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. disarming, disarmamentnoun

    act of reducing or depriving of arms

    "the disarmament of the aggressor nations must be complete"

Wiktionary

  1. disarmamentnoun

    The reduction or the abolition of the military forces and armaments of a nation, and of its capability to wage war

ChatGPT

  1. disarmament

    Disarmament is the act or policy of reducing, limiting, or abolishing weapons, especially military weapons, equipment, and systems. It expresses the aspiration for a safer world where conflict resolution does not involve violence or threat of violence. Disarmament can be applied at various levels from personal to global and can be voluntary or enforced by international treaties and agreements.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Disarmamentnoun

    the act of disarming

  2. Etymology: [Cf. F. dsarmement.]

Wikidata

  1. Disarmament

    Disarmament is the act of reducing, limiting, or abolishing weapons. Disarmament generally refers to a country's military or specific type of weaponry. Disarmament is often taken to mean total elimination of weapons of mass destruction, such as nuclear arms. General and Complete Disarmament refers to the removal of all weaponry, including conventional arms.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. disarmament

    The reduction of a military establishment to some level set by international agreement. See also arms control agreement.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. disarmament

    The act of disarming.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of disarmament in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of disarmament in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of disarmament in a Sentence

  1. Berit Reiss-Andersen:

    Free, independent and fact-based journalism serves to protect against abuse of power, lies and war propaganda, without freedom of expression and freedom of the press, it will be difficult to successfully promote fraternity between nations, disarmament and a better world order to succeed in our time.

  2. Adam Mount:

    Kim Jong Un's speech was a statement of his nation's nuclear weapons policy. In some ways, it was the opposite of a promise to denuclearize, pyongyang is essentially trying to play for time. They will be looking for ways to distract attention from nuclear disarmament or to stall out negotiations.

  3. Bashar al-Assad:

    It's a great honour to be with President Putin, we have many things to discuss, including trade and including some disarmament.

  4. Jill Stein:

    The Green Party's agenda hasn't really changed, our stuff was all about nuclear weapons, the need for disarmament, the need for the US to participate in the new UN treaty.

  5. Tresor Nzila:

    It's bizarre because there was a disarmament, demobilisation and reinsertion, the army is present in the Pool. The gendarmerie and police are there as well.

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