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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)