war chest
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˈwar chest noun [countable] informal 1. BFPMthe money that a government has available to spend on war 战争基金2 the money that a politician or organization has available to spend on achieving something 专款 The government’s huge war chest could be used to improve transport. 政府的这笔巨额专款可用于改善交通。
Examples from the Corpus
war chest• The dairymen accumulated a war chest of $ 1 million, and spread half of it in congressional elections.• It has a war chest of $ 40 million to spend each year on advertising.• And he still has a war chest of $ 263,417.• Martin's campaign war chest enjoys strong support from industry, including mine managers and safety officers.• Clinton has a full war chest and no Democratic opponent to worry about.• Much of that money already was in the Clinton-Gore war chest.From Longman Business Dictionarywar chestˈwar chest noun [countable usually singular] journalism FINANCE a large amount of money that a company has in its RESERVES (=profits from earlier periods of time not paid out to shareholders, or cash from the sale of assets) that it can use to buy other companiesWe have heard a lot about their multi-billion pound war chest for acquisitions.ˈwar chest nounChineseSyllable
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war chest
ˈwar chest
noun [countable] informal
1. the money that a government has available to spend on war
2. the money that a politician or organization has available to spend on achieving something:
The government’s huge war chest could be used to improve transport.
ˈwar chest
noun [countable] informal1. the money that a government has available to spend on war
2. the money that a politician or organization has available to spend on achieving something: