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Substantiv

  1. (politics) Figurative description of the United States of America as supplier of extensive materiel support to U.S. allies during World War II; figurative description of post-war U.S. as the manufacturer and possessor of the greatest quantity of advanced military weaponry in the world, in the service of defending democratic forms of government.

Exempel

  • In a fireside shout Franklin Roosevelt this week told Business and Labor that they would have to speed up the job of making the U. S. the "arsenal of democracy".
  • The United States, he contends, is no longer the arsenal of democracy. Nor does it have a clear technological advantage over the Soviet Union.
  • Newt Gingrich toured a metal plant in Cleveland last week, telling workers on the shop floor that manufacturing jobs are crucial to national security. “We have to have companies like this. You cannot be the arsenal of democracy if you don’t have an arsenal,” he said.

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