war chest

noun

: a fund accumulated to finance a war

broadly : a fund earmarked for a specific purpose, action, or campaign

Examples of war chest in a Sentence

The candidate held fund-raising dinners to build up his war chest.

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Both have a war chest and BILLIONS of users to keep and gradually migrate them to more generative use cases. —

Daniel Newman, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024 This move arms Triller with a financial war chest to upgrade and optimize the Triller app, potentially transforming it into a formidable TikTok rival. —

Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024 Warren Buffett, who has long favored holding massive amounts of cash, is headed into 2025 with a particularly gigantic war chest at Berkshire Hathaway — in fact the largest cash hoard in 34 years. —

Yun Li, CNBC, 22 Dec. 2024 Behind the scenes, billionaire backers were lining up even larger war chests. —

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