armament industry
collocation in Englishmeaningsofarmamentandindustry
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armament
noun
uk/ˈɑː.mə.mənt/us/ˈɑːr.mə.mənt/
the process of increasing the number and strength of a ...
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industry
noun
uk/ˈɪn.də.stri/us/ˈɪn.də.stri/
the companies and activities involved in the process of producing goods for sale, especially in a factory or ...
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(Definition ofarmamentandindustryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I have no brief for thearmamentindustry.
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We do not want thearmamentindustryin this country to exist for that purpose only.
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The first is to get the maximum increase in productivity in thearmamentindustry.
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The first is that thearmamentindustryis principally concerned with engineering.
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What diversion of tonnage of steel is expected from thearmamentindustryto engineering.
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I understand there are 70,000 vacancies in thearmamentindustrynow.
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It would cause massive unemployment and it would bring thearmamentindustrytotally to a stop.
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I want to come to another aspect of thearmamentindustry.
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The whole tenor is that there should be a move from the textile industries into thearmamentindustry.
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Further, she does not have the drain of having a vastarmamentindustryor output to sustain.
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We are too dependent on thearmamentindustry, and the markets of the world are being lost to us.
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I should like to know how all this fits into the general pattern, particularly in thearmamentindustry.
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The case against nationalisation of the whole of thearmamentindustryhas been made by at least five speakers.
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The fact that they need to enlarge thearmamentindustrypresupposes that they are going to take people from some other industries.
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That is mainly because those who have been out of work have drifted into other industries, largely to thearmamentindustry.
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The most terrible danger of the rearmament policy is the creation of vested interests of employers and employed in thearmamentindustry.
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At any rate, as far as thearmamentindustryis concerned, this is the view that they take with regard to its method of working.
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Surely the workmen who are employed in the aircraft industry and in thearmamentindustryare entitled to ask the same kind of question.
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One cannot help feeling that if we are to get disarmament in thearmamentindustrywe must in some way control that industry by an international board.
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The new money that is being put into armaments represents no tangible assets, and no real value, but the further exploitation of labour power in thearmamentindustry.
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Its legacy includes its outstanding contributions to philanthropy and to the development of thearmamentindustryand of the oil industry.
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Efforts to develop anarmamentindustrywere only partially successful, but the motivation of the insurgents was generally expected to make up for their insufficient equipment and preparation.
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