arms racenoun [ S ]
uk/ˈɑːmz ˌreɪs/us/ˈɑːmz ˌreɪs/the situation in which two or more countries try to have more and stronger weapons than each other
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Providing weapons or taking weapons away
- arm
- armament
- armed
- arms control
- bare
- capability
- decommission
- disarm
- disarmament
- gun control
- militarized
- nuclear-free
- pack
- peace dividend
- rearm
- reinforce
- tooled up
- unarmed
- under arms idiom
- with your bare hands idiom