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单词 armed response
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armed responsen.

Brit. /ˌɑːmd rᵻˈspɒns/, U.S. /ˌɑrmd rəˈspɑns/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: armed adj.1, response n.
Etymology: < armed adj.1 + response n.
Originally U.S.
1. A response to a political crisis or challenge that involves using weapons and military force.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > [noun] > political actions or practice > types of
practical politics1709
theopolitics1736
Realpolitik1872
shirtsleeve (also shirtsleeves) diplomacy1896
power politics1901
armed response1904
politricks1908
Machtpolitik1916
power play1941
telepolitics1958
marketization1961
gender politics1977
1904 Indiana (Pa.) Democrat 17 Feb. (headline) Czar declares war... Commanding armed response to Japanese challenge at Port Arthur.
1968 Mod. Law Rev. 31 161 Israel will always tend to regard any such suspension [of shipping] as a threat to her security warranting an armed response.
1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 17 Oct. e4/1 Their presence in Haiti could have served as a trip-wire because any attack..could have triggered an armed response.
2006 W. G. Werner in A. Wagner & W. Pencak Images in Law ii. 21 International practice..showed a willingness to accept that an armed response to terrorist attacks could in principle be lawful.
2. A response made by an armed security officer to an emergency situation or call (chiefly U.S.). Also: a response by an armed, specially trained police unit to a serious crime incident (chiefly British).Recorded earliest in attributive use (cf. Compounds).
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1977 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 22 Feb. Security persons, called ‘armed response personnel’.., would be trained to use semiautomatic weapons kept at each facility [sc. nuclear power plants].
1980 New Castle (Pa.) News 1 Dec. 2/2 Nearly every house has a small sign warning that it is equipped with alarms... One grimly guarantees an ‘armed response’.
1998 R. Newman Manners 226 From somewhere down below we hear but can't see a collage of three, maybe four police sirens... Must be something special for the armed response.
2013 Daily Tel. 1 Apr. 13/1 Officers have installed a panic alarm in his home that triggers an armed response.

Compounds

attributive (chiefly in sense 2), as armed response personnel, armed response team, armed response unit, etc.
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1977armed response personnel [see sense 2].
1989 R. Graef Talking Blues xiv. 428 Nottinghamshire has theirs [sc. a specialist team] cruising the force area with weapons in the back of an ‘armed response vehicle’.
1993 G. F. Newman Law & Order (rev. ed.) 209 Shooting an innocent member of the public was something most of them feared..so [they] were often relieved when the Armed Response Unit was called in.
1997 C. Newland Scholar (1998) xvi. 275 The armed response officers were the first to enter, looking like soldiers in their regulation body armour.
2009 ‘R. Keeland’ tr. S. Larsson Girl who played with Fire xxx. 527 The national armed response team or some equivalent would be tasked with taking her in.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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