munitioneern.
/mjᵿˌnɪʃəˈnɪə/, U.S. /mjuˌnɪʃəˈnɪ(ə)r/, /mjəˌnɪʃəˈnɪ(ə)r/ A worker in a munitions factory; a maker or supplier of ammunition.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > armourer > [noun] > one who makes artillery or firearms > one who makes ammunition
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1916 E. V. Lucas Vermilion Box 254 In the need for copper there is quite a good price for engraved plates, and theirs have been weeded out for the munitioneers.
1919 Athenæum 23 May 360/1 ‘Trinitrotoluene’, which the munitioneers shortened to T.N.T.
1927 W. Deeping Kitty xxvii. 342 The men..returned to a land that was not full of heroes... The voice of the yellow dog was heard in it, the snarl of the ex-munitioneer.
1940 New Statesman 19 Oct. 376 The munitioneer can see no difference in the management or control of his factory.
1982 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 54 91 Gabriel Ouvrard, the French munitioneer..took enormous risks in selling supplies to the Napoleonic Army.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1916- to cast over the bar
- to cast overboard
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- to cast pearls before swine
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- to cast something in one's dish
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