🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

军火

Pronunciation / Transliteration: jūnhuǒ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
ordnance/ˈɔːrdnəns/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这支部队配备了先进的军火。"

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    Mounted guns; artillery, or military supplies such as weapons, ammunition, and combat vehicles.

    "The military convoy was heavily loaded with ordnance and supplies."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Late Middle English (in the sense 'arrangement, decree'): variant of ordinance, influenced by obsolete French ordonnance in the military sense.

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