weaponisation
The act of making something into a weapon or making more effective as a weapon.
Noun
- The act of making something into a weapon or making more effective as a weapon.
- At the dawn of the space age the Eisenhower administration came to the conclusion that the weaponisation of space was not in the interests of the United States. - 2007, Michael Sheehan, The International Politics of...
- The weaponization of international credit was nothing new, but its deployment in this instance locked Bulgaria into the policy of the Triple Alliance […]. - 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published...
Origin
Etymology tree English weaponise Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English weaponisation From weaponise + -ation.