arms race

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1. competition between countries to achieve superiority in quantity and quality of military arms.

noun

1. the continuing competitive attempt by two or more nations each to have available to it more and more powerful weapons than the other(s)

n.

1930, in reference to naval build-ups, from arms (see arm (n.2)) + race (n.1). First used in British English.

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