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NONPROLIFERATION

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Dictionary entry overview: What does nonproliferation mean?

• NONPROLIFERATION (noun)
The noun NONPROLIFERATION has 1 sense:

1. the prevention of something increasing or spreading (especially the prevention of an increase in the number of countries possessing nuclear weapons)

Familiarity information: NONPROLIFERATION used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• NONPROLIFERATION (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The prevention of something increasing or spreading (especially the prevention of an increase in the number of countries possessing nuclear weapons)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

non-proliferation; nonproliferation

Context examples:

they protested that the nonproliferation treaty was just a plot to maintain the hegemony of those who already had nuclear weapons / nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation are closely related goals

Hypernyms ("nonproliferation" is a kind of...):

bar; prevention (the act of preventing)

Antonym:

proliferation (a rapid increase in number (especially a rapid increase in the number of deadly weapons))

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