mil·i·tar·y-in·dus·tri·al complex (m l -t r  -n-d str- l)n. The aggregate of a nation's armed forces and the industries that supply their equipment, materials, and armaments. |
military-industrial complex
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(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in the US) the combined interests of the military establishment and industries involved in producing military material considered as exerting influence on US foreign and economic policy
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| Noun | 1. |  military-industrial complex - a country's military establishment and the industries that produce arms and other military equipment; "we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex"--Dwight David Eisenhowervested interest - groups that seek to control a social system or activity from which they derive private benefit |
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