war machine

Questions about war machine

What does war machine mean?

war machine means "the military forces of a nation".

What is another word for war machine?

Close synonyms include military, armed forces, armed services, military machine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is war machine a common word?

war machine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.