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armoury

/ ˈɑːmərɪ /

noun

  1. a secure place for the storage of weapons
  2. armour generally
    1. a National Guard base
    2. a building in which training in the use of arms and drill takes place; drill hall
    3. plural such a building used for training and as headquarters by a reserve unit of the armed forces
  3. resources, as of arguments or objections, on which to draw

    they thought they had proved him wrong, but he still had a few weapons in his armoury

  4. a place where arms are made
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

"This competition is the best of the best. They all have weapons in their armoury. I think Manchester City will be right up there."

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Emma Pinchbeck, chief executive of Energy UK, described carbon capture, utilisation and storage as a "tool in our armoury of technologies which we need to decarbonise parts of energy that we currently can't do with clean electricity".

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Military drills can be heard early in the morning, and near our accommodation block is a fenced-off building identified as an armoury.

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Wit and humour is part of that armoury.

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The cellars of the castle played host to a prison cell, a mess room and an armoury.

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