arms race

1. 1.

   a competition between nations to have the most powerful armaments

   Broaderrace

Questions about arms race

What does arms race mean?

arms race means "a competition between nations to have the most powerful armaments".

Is arms race a common word?

arms race 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.