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1. Any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting
   "he was licensed to carry a weapon"; "he was licensed to carry a weapon system"
   - arm, weapon system
    
2. A means of persuading or arguing
   "he used all his conversational weapons"
   - artillery

Derived forms: weapons

See also: weaponize

Type of: instrument, persuasion, suasion

Part of: arms, implements of war, munition, weaponry, weapons system

Encyclopedia: Weapon