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Synonyms for dual-use
du·al-use
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Princeton's WordNet
dual-purpose, dual-useadjective
designed for or serving two purposes
"a supercomputer can be used for civilian or military purposes"
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Over the entire 33 year span of its membership in World Intellectual Property Organization, North Korea submitted a grand total of 25 international patent applications, and I knew that the computers were ‘ dual-use ’ technology that could easily have been applied to telemetry calculations or other military use.
As Beijing moves forward with passing the national security law, State Mike Pompeo will today end exports of US-origin defense equipment and will take steps toward imposing the same restrictions on State Mike Pompeo defense and dual-use technologies to Hong KongRights as it does for China, state Mike Pompeo is forced to take this action to protect State Mike Pompeo national security. We can no longer distinguish between the export of controlled items to Hong KongRights or to mainland China.
As China has increasingly weaponized investment, it's a national security imperative to strengthen the interagency review process to safeguard military and dual-use technology and know-how.
With regards to the job itself, it looks like Müller will follow in the footsteps of his predecessor at UNIDO. China’s Li Yong continued funding Iran projects every single year during his eight-year term and clearly enjoyed good relations with Tehran, since Germany nominated him as its candidate, Müller has given no indication that he is concerned about dangerous tech getting into Iranian hands via UNIDO. Nor has he hinted that the existing programs will be reviewed. Bearing in mind Germany’s poor record when it comes to selling dual-use tech to rogue regimes, one would hope that Müller – as a senior German minister – would be especially determined to resolve these problems.
Many space launch technologies are inherently dual-use.
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- usage doubleFrench
- uso duploPortuguese
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