arsenal

American  

[ahr-suh-nl, ahrs-nuhl] / ˈɑr sə nl, ˈɑrs nəl /

noun

1. a place of storage or a magazine containing arms and military equipment for land or naval service.

2. a government establishment where military equipment or munitions are manufactured.

3. a collection or supply of weapons or munitions.

4. a collection or supply of anything; store.

   He came to the meeting with an impressive arsenal of new research data.

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arsenal British  

/ ˈɑːsənəl /

noun

1. a store for arms, ammunition, and other military items

2. a workshop or factory that produces munitions

3. a store of anything regarded as weapons

   an arsenal of destructive arguments

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Etymology

Origin of arsenal

1500–10; (< Middle French ) < Italian arzanale < Upper Italian ( Venetian ) arzanà dockyard < Arabic dār ṣināʿah workshop (literally, house of handwork); initial d probably taken as a form of the preposition di from

Example Sentences

Tehran’s arsenal of missiles and rockets able to hit distant targets is in tatters.

From The Wall Street Journal

O’Connell, the trade economist, said California’s defense industry will benefit “to the extent we’ve managed to shoot off a large part of our inventory of our arsenal, and we’ll need to replenish that.”

From Los Angeles Times

Human Rights Watch criticized the government for using “an arsenal of invasive surveillance tools,” including “by directly monitoring messages, emails, and mobile devices in the U.A.E. and beyond its borders.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Since then, U.S. officials have increasingly focused on narrower goals of destroying the country’s military capability, nuclear program and ballistic-missile arsenal.

From The Wall Street Journal

For decades, it was believed to have an arsenal more powerful than the military's, and it fought multiple wars with Israel that each took a devastating toll.

From Barron's