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The United States of America, as supplier of extensive materiel support to U.S. allies during World War II; or 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 governments favouring the United States, mostly democracies.
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Usage: figuratively
Topics: government, politics
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Alternative form of arsenal of democracy.
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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Introduced to wide usage (although probably not first used) by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in December, 1940.