WAR POWER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does war power mean? 

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

1. an extraordinary power exercised (usually by the executive branch) in the prosecution of a war and involving an extension of the powers that the government normally has in peacetime

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAR POWER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An extraordinary power exercised (usually by the executive branch) in the prosecution of a war and involving an extension of the powers that the government normally has in peacetime

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

office; power ((of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power)