arms deal

1. 1.

   a deal to provide military arms

   Broaderdeal

Questions about arms deal

What does arms deal mean?

arms deal means "a deal to provide military arms".

Is arms deal a common word?

arms deal is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.