BUILD-DOWN


Meaning of BUILD-DOWN in English

/bild"down'/ , n.

a process for reducing armaments, esp. the number of nuclear weapons held by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., by eliminating several older weapons for each new one that is deployed.

[ 1980-85; by analogy with BUILDUP ]

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