ordnance
30
8.7
- noun
- /ˈɔrdnəns/
- Specialized
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armamento
- The military decided to deploy additional ordnance to ensure the operation's success.
- ordnance officer
- explosive ordnance
- ordnance disposal
Our next guest is a former EOD technician that's explosive ordnance disposal, basically a bomb technician.
- Our next guest is a former EOD technician that's explosive ordnance disposal, basically a bomb technician.
Examples
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The PLA could put a very large amount of ordnance "on target" in a relatively short time.
Academic text (1997) -
And in these same locations, around battle sites, unexploded ordnance still sits just under the ground.
Fiction book (1995) -
And why does the ordnance crowd need a battle group to guard them?
Fiction book (2000) -
Even those few ordnance officers with engineering degrees are normally kept back at the corps headquarters.
Academic text (1996) -
The Air Force isn't gonna spend ordnance on one machine gun.
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Final attack should have enough ordnance to neutralize all enemy in the caves.
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And they're still doing that all these years after the war, still finding unexploded ordnance that the Americans dropped.
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No battleship in the history of naval warfare fired more ordnance than the USS PENN.
Blog text (11) -
The government also provided ordnance, outfitting the soldiers with muskets and cartridges, bayonets and scabbards, and all the necessary accoutrements.
Academic text (2011) -
The soldiers received training on how to handle various types of ordnance safely.
Synonyms
85
5.2
The complete collection of weapons a country or group has
82
4.2
Tools used for fighting that belong to a country or group, like guns and swords
69
5.9
Military machines and weapons used in war, like tanks and missiles
45
7.6
Weapons, bullets, and equipment used in war
21
7.0
Weapons and equipment like guns, tanks and ships that an army uses
5
5.3
All the weapons and military equipment a country has
4
8.8
Equipment and supplies used by an army
2
2.8
Weapons and military equipment used for fighting
1
7.0
Weapons used in war like guns or swords
Compounds
- Specialized
A place where the military keeps and gives out weapons and ammunition
- Specialized
A weapon that is not meant to kill people and is used for training and to control crowds
How Powerful
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word ordnance comes from an old root meaning 'order', the same idea in the everyday word order. It originally meant 'things arranged by order', so it became the name for the weapons and equipment that an army is supplied with.