English

Alternative forms

• weaponization (American and Oxford British spelling)

Noun

weaponisation ‎(uncountable)

1. The act of making something into a weapon or making more effective as a weapon.
   • 2007, Michael Sheehan, The International Politics of Space:

     At the dawn of the space age the Eisenhower administration came to the conclusion that the weaponisation of space was not in the interests of the United States.

   • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 278:

     The weaponization of international credit was nothing new, but its deployment in this instance locked Bulgaria into the policy of the Triple Alliance […].