build-down: Meaning and Definition of

build-down

Pronunciation: (bild'doun"), [key]
— n.
  1. 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.
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