MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A country's military establishment and the industries that produce arms and other military equipment

Example:

we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("military-industrial complex" is a kind of...):

vested interest (groups that seek to control a social system or activity from which they derive private benefit)

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