war chest

1. 1.

   a fund accumulated to finance a war (or a political campaign)

   Broaderfund

   politics

Questions about war chest

What does war chest mean?

war chest means "a fund accumulated to finance a war (or a political campaign)".

Is war chest a common word?

war chest is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.