- Defence
- n. attack
- Security
- n. instability
- arm-and-a-leg
- n. (colloq.) cost of a landmine
- armlock
- n. debt incurred by developing country buying weapons from the West.
- administer
- v. bribe a defence minister to gain support for an arms deal.
- BAE
- Big Arms Exporter
- ethics
- n. pl. pedantic attention to detail that obstructs commercial achievement.
- oxymoron
- arms controls
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