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Ammunition vs Munition - What's the difference?

ammunition | munition |

As nouns the difference between ammunition and munition

is that ammunition is (articles used in charging firearms)Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc while munition is armament, weaponry.

ammunition

English

Noun

  • (senseid)Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc.
  • (obsolete) Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense.
    • ammunition''' bread; '''ammunition shoes
  • Any stock of missiles or supplies for a conflict, literal or figurative.
    • Her bad behaviour is giving him ammunition''' for a divorce / '''ammunition for the next electoral debate.

    Synonyms

    * (articles used in charging firearms) ammo

    munition

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually plural) Armament, weaponry.
  • * 1918 , Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation Book 7.:
    • Just as we can say that an English girl who leaves the narrow circle of her old life, and goes into a munition factory and joins a union and takes part in its debates, will never after be a docile home-slave; so we can say that the clergyman who helps in Y. M. C. A. work in France, or in Red Cross organization in America, will be less the bigot and formalist forever after.
  • (military, NATO) Bombs, rockets, missiles.
  • (rare, obsolete) A tower or fortification.
  • * 1610 , Douay-Rheims Bible, Habacuc 2:1
    • I wil stand vpon my watch, and fixe my steppe vpon the munition : and I wil behold, to see what may be sayd to me, and what I may answer to him that rebuketh me.