MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does military-industrial complex mean? 

• MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX (noun)
  The noun MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX has 1 sense:

1. a country's military establishment and the industries that produce arms and other military equipment

  Familiarity information: MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

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

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)