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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As the militia builds a war chest of over $4 million, Husk pursues the malevolent racist Bob Mathews (Nicholas Hoult) to a final bloody standoff that will go down in U.S. history. —

Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024 Berkshire Hathaway’s war chest surpasses $300 billion Berkshire Hathaway’s cash pile surged to a record $325.2 billion by the end of September, compared with $276.9 billion the quarter before. —

Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024 This year, Democrats are fortified by a hefty war chest and the fact that a Democrat sits in the Governor's Office. —

Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024 Calvert won against Rollins in 2022 by less than 5 percentage points, and the Democratic challenger boasts a much larger war chest this time around. —

USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for war chest