war chest

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Noun

war chest (plural war chests)

  1. A fund to finance a war
    • the holdings of the state (the war chest plus other cash balances) - “The First World War”, Hew Strachan, Oxford University Press, 2003.
  2. (by extension) A fund for some special purpose, such as a political campaign

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