weaponisation

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From weaponise +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

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Noun

weaponisation (uncountable)

  1. The act of making something into a weapon or making more effective as a weapon.
    • 2007, Michael Sheehan, The International Politics of Space:
      At the dawn of the space age the Eisenhower administration came to the conclusion that the weaponisation of space was not in the interests of the United States.
    • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 278:
      The weaponization of international credit was nothing new, but its deployment in this instance locked Bulgaria into the policy of the Triple Alliance […].
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