armed | meaning of armed in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englisharmedarmed /ɑːmd $ ɑːrmd/ ●●○ S3 W3 adjective    1 WEAPONcarrying weapons, especially a gun OPP unarmed  Armed police raided the building.  The Minister was kidnapped by armed men on his way to the airport.  The prisoners were kept under armed guard.armed with  The suspect is armed with a shotgun.  She got ten years in prison for armed robbery (=stealing using a gun).  The president fears that armed conflict (=a war) is possible.  There is very little support for an armed struggle (=fighting with weapons) against the government.  a heavily armed battleship  Many of the gangs are armed to the teeth (=carrying a lot of weapons). 2 READYhaving the knowledge, skills, or equipment you need to do somethingarmed with  She came to the meeting armed with all the facts and figures to prove us wrong.  I went out, armed with my binoculars, to see what I could find in the fields.Examples from the Corpusarmed• The two men may be armed, and should not be approached by members of the public.• Nor was government aid to the landlord restricted to armed assistance.• These Protocols restated, and in several important respects developed, the laws of armed conflict.• And with the police and most of the armed forces behind me, I was able to stop Ngune from seizing power.• Soon after the coup, Reza Khan became minister of war and defacto commander in chief of the armed forces.• Aspects of the revolt gave further illustration of the unreliable loyalty of sections of the armed forces.• Over £60,000 worth of jewellery has been stolen by an armed gang in north London.• The prisoners were kept under armed guard.• He says he was captured by armed police and was probably planning an armed robbery.• a group of heavily armed soldiersheavily armed• Street gangs are often heavily armed.• I marvel who these wretches could be, moving in such numbers, and so heavily armed.• Follow this road as far as the heavily armed anti-government ranch.• They have refused to leave their heavily armed compound or to accept any federal jurisdiction over their lives.• Those highly visible operations, which featured heavily armed government forces using aggressive pressure tactics, ended in deadly violence.• A dawn raid by about 200 heavily armed law officers bagged more than 30 members and associates of the white-supremacist prison gang.• Outside the front door were three heavily armed plainclothes policemen demanding to know what was going on.• These highly mobile skirmishers can be used to draw Goblin fanatics out of their units prior to a charge by more heavily armed troops.