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🚗 Making safe from bullets 🛡️ Making very strong 🛡️ To make secure
bulletproofing

bulletproofing

5.3
Work to make a plan or argument hard to criticize
  • noun
  • /ˈbʊlɪtˌpruːfɪŋ/
  • Informal
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  • The team spent hours bulletproofing their business plan before presenting it to investors.

Examples

  • She focused on bulletproofing the system to ensure it could handle any unexpected problems.

  • Effective bulletproofing of your argument can help you win difficult debates.

  • Effective bulletproofing can prevent many issues.

  • The bulletproofing of our strategy has made it more effective.

  • The team spent hours bulletproofing their business plan before presenting it to investors.

  • Effective bulletproofing of your argument can help you win difficult debates.

  • She focused on bulletproofing the system to ensure it could handle any unexpected problems.

Synonyms

airtightness
vsbulletproofing
6.1

So complete and secure that no one can find a mistake

is the active process of strengthening plans to avoid criticism or failure
unassailability
vsbulletproofing
9.8

A state in which something cannot be attacked, questioned, or defeated

is the deliberate making of systems strong to prevent criticism or failure

Antonyms

vulnerability
156 5.1

A state of being easily harmed physically or emotionally

weakening
3.2

A process that makes a person or thing less strong

How Robust

bulletproofing
  • Informal
5.3
improvement
619 1.1
revision
94 2.9
to review
  • Literature
252 2.9

Surface Forms

bulletproofing singular
bulletproofings plural

Morphology

bulletproofing = bulletproof (semi-transparent) = bullet + proof + ing

Built from the compound 'bulletproof' but used metaphorically to mean making plans or arguments unassailable rather than literally resistant to bullets.

Etymology

Bulletproofing comes from the words bullet and proof, with proof meaning 'strong against' like in waterproof. A helpful way to remember this sense is to imagine making a plan so strong it cannot be easily attacked or criticised, so it will not fail.