Word Meanings - AMMUNITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense. 2. Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc. 3. Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative.

Additional info about word: AMMUNITION

1. Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense. 2. Articles used in charging firearms and ordnance of all kinds; as powder, balls, shot, shells, percussion caps, rockets, etc. 3. Any stock of missiles, literal or figurative. Ammunition bread, shoes, etc., such as are contracted for by government, and supplied to the soldiers.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AMMUNITION)

• Store
• Treasure
• treasury
• garner
• provision
• supply
• fund
• accumulation
• hoard
• abundance
• shop
• place of business
• ammunition
• stock

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AMMUNITION)

• Scatter
• squander
• dissipate
• disregard
• disesteem
• prostitute
• waste
• betray

Related words: (words related to AMMUNITION)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• STOCKER
  One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• STOCKWORK
  A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• TREASURER
  One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority;
• STOCK-BLIND
  Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• SQUANDER
  scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqvätta to squirt, sqvättra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw 1. To scatter; to disperse. Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden. 2. To spend lavishly or profusely;
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• TREASURERSHIP
  The office of treasurer.
• HOARDING
  A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work. Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. London Graphic. 2. A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something. The whole arrangement
• ABUNDANCE
  An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been
• SUPPLY
  LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to 1. To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• ARCHTREASURER
  A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.
• UPHOARD
  To hoard up. Shak.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• BEETLESTOCK
  The handle of a beetle.