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US
/ɹiˈɑɹməmənt/
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[ UK /ɹiːˈɑːməmənt/ ]
[ UK /ɹiːˈɑːməmənt/ ]
NOUN
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the act of arming again
he opposed the rearmament of Japan after World War II
How To Use rearmament In A Sentence
- While leaders in Beijing remain vigilant against Japanese "rearmament," their rhetoric is part of an orchestrated strategy to overtake Japan as the region's pre-eminent power. Smoke Alarm
- And to make the defense of the West hinge upon German rearmament is to misconceive the dimensions of the problem. Britain Versus EuropeThe Schuman Plan and German Revival
- Therefore, rearmament is the foundation of and an inseparable condition of any foreign policy a British Government can follow. Europe 1937 Prospect and Retrospect
- Simultaneously, President Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated U.S. rearmament, with emphasis on aircraft.
- Moreover, the frustration of naval limitation did not bring with it an immediate turn to unlimited rearmament.
- And then this week, the current Kremlin incumbent, Dmitry Medvedev, goes and announces that he's "rearming" Russia, using the very word - "rearmament" - that Europe fretted over and feared all through its short 20-year peace between the first and second world wars. Undefined
- His conversion began toward the end of the war, he says, when he encountered members of an international group called Moral Rearmament that preached peace through personal change. NYT > Home Page
- I would like to say rearmament is not a policy in itself but it is the inseparable condition, in my opinion, of any foreign policy. Europe 1937 Prospect and Retrospect
- France's first rearmament plan was adopted in 1934, only to be followed by a cutback in expenditure in the next year.
- These improved weapons will inevitably demand the rearmament of the armies of Germany, Austria, Italy, France, and Russia, at an estimated cost of not less than $754,000,000, a sum which will tax the wits of the parliaments to wring from the groaning workers. The Impossibility of War