arms industry

1. 1.

   an industry that manufacturers weapons of war

   Synonymsmunitions industry

   Broaderindustry

Questions about arms industry

What does arms industry mean?

arms industry means "an industry that manufacturers weapons of war".

What is another word for arms industry?

Close synonyms include munitions industry. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is arms industry a common word?

arms industry 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.