Militarism

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Militarism \Mil"i*ta*rism\, n. [Cf. F. militarisme.]
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     1. A military state or condition; a military system; reliance
        on military force in administering government.
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     2. The spirit and traditions of military life. --H. Spencer.
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     3. The view that military strength, efficiency and values
        should dominate the country's public policy choices and
        take precedence over other interests.
        [1913 Webster PJC]
  
     4. The policy of maintaining a large military force, even in
        peacetime; -- a term usually used by opponents of such a
        policy on the assumption that such a large force is
        unnecessary for national defense.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  militarism
       n : a political orientation of a people or a government to
           maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to
           use it aggresively to defend or promote national
           interests

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  122 Moby Thesaurus words for "militarism":
     Eisenhower Doctrine, Monroe Doctrine, Nixon Doctrine,
     Truman Doctrine, absolute monarchy, aggression, aggressiveness,
     antagonism, appeasement, aristocracy, autarchy, autocracy,
     autonomy, balance of power, bellicism, bellicosity, belligerence,
     belligerency, brinkmanship, chauvinism, coalition government,
     coexistence, colonialism, combativeness, commonwealth, compromise,
     constitutional government, constitutional monarchy, containment,
     contentiousness, democracy, detente, deterrence, dictatorship,
     diplomacy, diplomatic, diplomatics, dollar diplomacy,
     dollar imperialism, dominion rule, duarchy, duumvirate, dyarchy,
     expansionism, federal government, federation, ferocity,
     feudal system, fierceness, fight, foreign affairs, foreign policy,
     garrison state, gerontocracy, good-neighbor policy, heteronomy,
     hierarchy, hierocracy, home rule, hostility, imperialism,
     internationalism, isolationism, jingoism, limited monarchy,
     manifest destiny, martial law, martialism, meritocracy, militancy,
     military government, mob rule, mobocracy, monarchy, nationalism,
     neocolonialism, neutralism, nonresistance, ochlocracy, oligarchy,
     open door, open-door policy, pantisocracy, patriarchate,
     patriarchy, peace offensive, peaceful coexistence, police state,
     preparedness, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, pure democracy,
     quarrelsomeness, regency, representative democracy,
     representative government, republic, saber rattling,
     self-determination, self-government, shirt-sleeve diplomacy,
     shuttle diplomacy, social democracy, spheres of influence,
     stratocracy, technocracy, the big stick, thearchy, theocracy,
     totalitarian government, totalitarian regime, tough policy,
     triarchy, triumvirate, truculence, tyranny, unfriendliness,
     unpeacefulness, warmongering, warpath, welfare state,
     world politics