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PRONUNCIATION OF GUNRUNNING

gunrunning  [ˈɡʌnˌrʌnɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GUNRUNNING

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conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Gunrunning is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GUNRUNNING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

gunrunning

Arms trafficking

Arms trafficking, also known as gunrunning, is the illegal trafficking or smuggling of contraband weapons or ammunition. What constitutes legal trade in firearms varies widely, depending on local and national laws. The 1997 Report of the UN Panel of Governmental Experts on Small Arms provides a more refined and precise definition, which has become internationally accepted. This distinguishes between small arms, which are weapons designed for personal use, and light weapons, which are designed for use by several persons serving as a unit. Ammunition and explosives also form an integral part of small arms and light weapons used in conflict.

Definition of gunrunning in the English dictionary

The definition of gunrunning in the dictionary is the smuggling of guns and ammunition or other weapons of war into a country.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GUNRUNNING


baserunning
ˈbeɪsˌrʌnɪŋ
cunning
ˈkʌnɪŋ
drug-running
ˈdrʌɡˌrʌnɪŋ
frontrunning
ˈfrʌntˌrʌnɪŋ
funning
ˈfʌnɪŋ
gunning
ˈɡʌnɪŋ
long-running
ˌlɒŋˈrʌnɪŋ
punning
ˈpʌnɪŋ
rum-running
ˈrʌmˌrʌnɪŋ
running
ˈrʌnɪŋ
shunning
ˈʃʌnɪŋ
smooth-running
ˌsmuːðˈrʌnɪŋ
stunning
ˈstʌnɪŋ
underrunning
ˈʌndəˌrʌnɪŋ
wonning
ˈwʌnɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GUNRUNNING

gunny sack
gunpaper
gunplay
gunpoint
gunport
gunpowder
Gunpowder Plot
gunpowder tea
gunpowdery
gunrunner
guns
gunsel
gunship
gunshot
gunshot wound
gunslinger
gunslinging
gunsmith
gunsmithing
gunstick

WORDS THAT END LIKE GUNRUNNING

award-winning
banning
canning
caravanning
cleaning
dinning
family planning
fanning
free-running
inning
Manning
pinning
planning
scanning
spanning
spinning
tanning
thinning
tunning
up and running
winning

Synonyms and antonyms of gunrunning in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «gunrunning» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GUNRUNNING

Find out the translation of gunrunning to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of gunrunning from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «gunrunning» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

gunrunning
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tráfico de armas
570 millions of speakers

English

gunrunning
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

gunrunning
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تهريب السلاح
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

gunrunning
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

contrabando de armas
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

gunrunning
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

le trafic d´armes
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gunrunning
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Waffenschmuggel
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

gunrunning
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

gunrunning
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gunrunning
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

buôn súng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

gunrunning
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बंदूक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

silâh kaçakçılığı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

contrabbando di armi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dyscyplina
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

gunrunning
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

gunrunning
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λαθρεμπόριο όπλων
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wapensmokkelarij
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vapenhandel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gunrunning
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of gunrunning

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GUNRUNNING»

The term «gunrunning» is normally little used and occupies the 130.045 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GUNRUNNING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «gunrunning» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «gunrunning» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about gunrunning

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GUNRUNNING»

Discover the use of gunrunning in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to gunrunning and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Oswald Talked: The New Evidence in the JFK Assassination
Jack Ruby also did not "act alone," and was a paymaster in a little-known gunrunning operation involving stolen military arms, probably connected to armory break-ins in Terrell and Fort Hood, Texas, shortly before the assassination. 6.
Mary La Fontaine
2
Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control
INTERSTATE GUNRUNNING Considerable attention in recent years has been focused on interstate "gunrunning," i.e., illicit movement of guns across state lines by persons in the business of illegal gun sales, typically moving guns from states  ...
Gary Kleck
3
The Killing Game
What Kalb failed to tell his audience about Eastland was that in May 1986, Eastland's deputy, Patrick Korten, had informed The New York Times that there was no evidence of Contra gunrunning and drug-smuggling—a claim others in the ...
Gary Webb, 2011
4
Killing JFK: 50 Years, 50 Lies: --From the Warren Commission ...
... Dealey Plaza— had connections to Ruby.133 •In 1959, Ruby made contact with Louis McWillie in Cuba for the purpose of exploring opportunities for weapons sales— possibly while serving as an informant for the FBI regarding gunrunning.
Dr. Lance Moore, 2013
5
Divorcing the Dictator: America's Bungled Affair with Noriega
After the treaties were ratified, the U.S. found new cause for concern: gunrunning. Noriega was believed to be assisting arms smuggling to the Nicaraguan guerrillas fighting to overthrow Anastasio Somoza. The U.S. would also have a new ...
Frederick Kempe, 1990
6
British Spies and Irish Rebels: British Intelligence and ...
9 But just a month later, Anglo-Irish co-operation had broken down and gunrunning reports were handled very differently. When SIS officers in Hamburg reported in June 1922 that another ship, the Stella Maris, was regularly carrying arms to ...
Paul McMahon, 2008
7
State Laws and Published Ordinances, Firearms, 2010-2011
Gunrunning (a) A person commits gunrunning when he or she transfers 3 or more firearms in violation of any of the paragraphs of Section 24-3 of this Code. ( b) Sentence. A person who commits gunrunning: (1) is guilty of a Class 1 felony;  ...
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (U.S.), Tobacco And Firearms Bureau Alcohol, 2013
8
Guns in America
Gunrunning. sting. gone. fatally. wrong. By Sari Horwitz Thursday, July 14, 2011 Phoenix — They came from all over the country, agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, brought here in a bold new effort to shut ...
The Washington Post, 2013
9
A History of Smuggling in Florida: Rumrunners and Cocaine ...
It cut deeply into the new nation's gold reserves, undermining the convertibility of its currency. In turn, that started inflation, which eventually ruined the Confederate economy. The Confederacy's concept of “fixed-price gunrunning” as a national ...
Stan Zimmerman, 2006
10
Congressional Record, V. 148, PT. 4, April 11, 2002 to April ...
The Act would establish mandatory minimum penalties for gunrunning as follows: a mandatory 3 year minimum sentence for a first offense involving 5-50 guns; a mandatory 5 year minimum sentence for second offense involving 5-50 guns; ...
U S Congress, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GUNRUNNING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term gunrunning is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Border villages at mercy of militants: Rajnath | Guwahati NYOOOZ
The home minister said the easy gunrunning through the porous border has made the NE region replete with illegal firearms smuggled from ... «NYOOOZ, Jul 15»
2
Police Abuses
... heinous crimes and those committed by organized/syndicated crime groups wherein PNP members are involved, gunrunning, illegal logging, ... «Catanduanes Tribune, Jul 15»
3
5 movie alternatives to the overbearing summer blockbuster
Most of the way this is a nice variation on the boy-and-his-dog theme, but the routine gunrunning crime plot that comes into play is less ... «Chronicle Independent, Jul 15»
4
CIDG busts gunrunner in weapons deal at Tacloban bus terminal
MANILA, Philippines -- The police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group arrested a gunrunning suspect in a buy-bust operation set up at ... «InterAksyon, Jul 15»
5
A powerful message from Ambassador Marks
... but getting involved in any form of illegality -- stealing, scamming, drug-running, gunrunning, to even the simplest form of wrong activity -- is ... «Jamaica Observer, Jul 15»
6
The Irish Volunteer - Óglach na hÉireann Volume 2 - Number 30
But the great Larne gunrunning had gone smoothly by the deliberate instructions of Downing Street, stated Mac Néill. The other main speaker ... «An Phoblacht, Jul 15»
7
Mortars kept women, children inside, says army officer
... to apprehend the former Tivoli Gardens strongman, who was at the time wanted in the United States on drugs and gunrunning charges. «Jamaica Observer, Jun 15»
8
Government & Politics Valerie Jarrett's Communist Family Ties
Jarrett was also involved in the cover-up of the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal, and JW obtained documents connecting her with a series ... «Patriot Post, Jun 15»
9
Soldier, 2 others nabbed for gunrunning
A soldier and two civilians were arrested on Saturday for alleged gunrunning—selling firearms to private armed groups in Leyte. Pfc. Dennis ... «Inquirer.net, Jun 15»
10
Russian deported; 3 suspects fall gun traders arrested
... Cardenas y Pangandoyon and companions, Roel Fumar y Linde and Lenelito Liporada y Glore, who were suspected of gunrunning activities ... «Manila Standard Today, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Gunrunning [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/gunrunning>. Apr 2024 ».
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