arms control

1. 1.

   a limitation on the size and armament of the armed forces of a country

   Broaderlimitation

Questions about arms control

What does arms control mean?

arms control means "a limitation on the size and armament of the armed forces of a country".

Is arms control a common word?

arms control is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.