Usually means: Competition for superior military capability.
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  1. arms race: Merriam-Webster
  2. arms race: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. arms race: Collins English Dictionary
  4. arms race: Vocabulary.com
  5. arms race: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. arms race: Wiktionary
  7. arms race: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. arms race: Dictionary.com
  9. Arms race: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. arms race: Rhymezone
  11. arms race: FreeDictionary.org
  12. arms race: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. arms race: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. arms race: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  15. arms race: Merriam-Webster

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Definitions from Wiktionary (arms race)

noun:  A competition for military supremacy between two powers, especially for the most weapons and the best military technology.
noun:  (figuratively) Any similar competition that involves competing developments.

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