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Definition of Gunrunning
1. Noun. The smuggling of guns and ammunition into a country secretly and illegally.
Definition of Gunrunning
1. Noun. The smuggling of arms and ammunition. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gunrunning
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gunrunning
Literary usage of Gunrunning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by Gerhard Richard Lomer (1919)
"Money can never restore any gunrunning is absurd. Louvain. Great architects and
artists, Fifty Germans were killed and dead these six hundred years, ..."
2. Low-Intensity Conflict in the Third World by Stephen Blank, Lewis B. Ware, Air University (U.S.). Press (1988)
"Filipinos are fishing, farming, and seafaring people; and piracy, smuggling,
violence, and gunrunning are common—especially in the south. ..."
3. The Strategic Quadrangle: Russia, China, Japan, and the United States in by Michael Mandelbaum (1995)
"... crime, gunrunning, and the tendency to suck others in—will be magnitudes
greater than the sad instance of Yugoslavia. The former Soviet Union is the one ..."
4. Responding to Low-Intensity Conflict Challenges by Stephen Blank (1993)
"This approach strengthens the international role of the KGB, both in recruiting
agents and in actual operations such as terror, gunrunning, ..."