Other forms: munitions
Munition is military weapons and the supplies for them. A munition factory.
It is nearly always plural in modern use, since munitions covers everything expendable. A munition factory in wartime employed more women than any other industry in Britain.
1nounmunitionMilitary weapons and the supplies for them.
“The munition works employed nine thousand people at its peak.”
munition is supplies.
Latin munitio meant a fortification, from munire, to fortify; the sense shifted to what fortifies an army.
French
munition
Latin
mūnitiō — a defence, fortification
English, today
munition
Built from
From Latin mūnitiō (“a defence, fortification”) via French munition, from mūnīre + tiō, from moenia (“city walls, defensive walls, or walls in general”). Equivalent to munite + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA