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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Going public would give the company a vast new war chest of cash with which to compete against Sam Altman’s OpenAI.
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Jim Edwards, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2025
Launched in late 2022 with a $1 billion war chest backed by RedBird Capital and Abu Dhabi’s IMI, RedBird IMI has the mandate to pursue investments in the news, entertainment and sports sectors.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Dec. 2025
After Moscow’s all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, European Union countries moved to slash Russian energy imports in a bid to deplete the Kremlin’s war chest.
—Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 28 Nov. 2025
The first pillar, the OpenAI war chest, may not be so bankable after all.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 16 Nov. 2025
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Jim Edwards, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2025
Launched in late 2022 with a $1 billion war chest backed by RedBird Capital and Abu Dhabi’s IMI, RedBird IMI has the mandate to pursue investments in the news, entertainment and sports sectors.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Dec. 2025
After Moscow’s all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, European Union countries moved to slash Russian energy imports in a bid to deplete the Kremlin’s war chest.
—Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 28 Nov. 2025
The first pillar, the OpenAI war chest, may not be so bankable after all.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 16 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for war chest
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“War chest.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/war%20chest. Accessed 17 Dec. 2025.
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