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Fighting for Equal Pay

Glossary

Armament - military weapons
Campaign – organised activities to achieve a goal
Conscripted – when a government passes a law to force a certain group of people to join the armed forces
Contribution – something that is given for a purpose
Lithograph - printing method. An image is formed on a metal or stone surface by putting grease in the areas to be left blank. Printing ink is added, which sticks to the ungreased areas and the whole plate is pressed on to the paper.
Munitions – all or any kind of military equipment and stores, including weapons
Negotiate – to discuss conditions and make a new agreement
Outbreak – sudden start of something
Proportion – part of
Welding - process used to joins materials, usually metals, by heat and/or pressure and causes them to fuse together. This is different from lower temperature metal-joining techniques such as soldering, which does not melt the base metal.