WAR CHEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does war chest mean? 

• WAR CHEST (noun)
  The noun WAR CHEST has 1 sense:

1. a fund accumulated to finance a war (or a political campaign)

  Familiarity information: WAR CHEST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAR CHEST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fund accumulated to finance a war (or a political campaign)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("war chest" is a kind of...):

fund; monetary fund (a reserve of money set aside for some purpose)

Domain category:

government; political science; politics (the study of government of states and other political units)