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I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.
Larry MacPhail

Meaning of "war chest" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WAR CHEST

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WAR CHEST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
War chest is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WAR CHEST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

War chest

A war chest is a collection of funds intended to allow a person or organization to get through a situation that requires much more money than usual.

Definition of war chest in the English dictionary

The definition of war chest in the dictionary is a fund collected for a specific purpose, such as an election campaign.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WAR CHEST

war baby
War Between the States
war bond
war bonnet
war bride
war cabinet
war clouds
war correspondent
war crime
war criminal
war cry
war dance
War Department
war establishment
war fever
war footing
war game
war grave
war hero
war memorial

WORDS THAT END LIKE WAR CHEST

barghest
behest
chest
chest-on-chest
community chest
farthest
furthest
get something off one´s chest
hest
hope chest
medicine chest
pyx chest
sea chest
slop chest
steam-chest
tea chest
toolchest
toychest
treasure chest
wind chest

Synonyms and antonyms of war chest in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «war chest» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WAR CHEST

Find out the translation of war chest to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of war chest from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «war chest» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

战争的胸部
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tesoro de guerra
570 millions of speakers

English

war chest
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

युद्ध छाती
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الصدر الحرب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

война в груди
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

caixa de guerra
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

যুদ্ধের বুকে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

trésor de guerre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dada perang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kriegskasse
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

活動資金
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

전쟁 가슴
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Perang dada
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngực chiến tranh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போர் மார்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

युद्ध छाती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

savaş ganimeti
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

petto di guerra
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wojna w klatce piersiowej
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

війна в грудях
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

piept de război
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πολέμου στο στήθος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oorlog bors
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

krigskassan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

krig brystet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of war chest

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WAR CHEST»

The term «war chest» is normally little used and occupies the 109.828 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WAR CHEST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about war chest

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QUOTES WITH «WAR CHEST»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word war chest.
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Larry MacPhail
I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WAR CHEST»

Discover the use of war chest in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to war chest and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Exchange Stabilization Fund: Slush Money Or War Chest?
The Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) holds more than $40 billion that is at the disposal of the US secretary of the Treasury for use in foreign exchange intervention and international financial support operations.
C. Randall Henning, 1999
2
Community Chest: A Case Study in Philanthropy
Articles of Incorporation of the War Chest Board, April 29, 1918. Among the officers were many names familiar in Indianapolis: Lilly, Ayres, Huesmann, Fletcher, Vonnegut, to name a few. Mr. William Fortune was elected president, and Mr. C. B. ...
‎1989
3
Fund Raising in the United States: Its Role in America's ...
70 These war-born forces, when coupled with the conflicts and needs that had given birth to federated fund raising a few years earlier, made the "war chest" inevitable. And the community war chest would in turn bring the community chest in ...
‎1965
4
Development assistance, export promotion, and environmental ...
Figure 4-10--U.S. Eximbank War Chest Grant Funds SOURCE: Eximbank's June 18,1992, report to Congress on tied aid credits, Attachment 3; U.S. Congress, General Accounting Office, Export Finance: The Role of the U.S. Export-Import Bank ...
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
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Export Finance: The Role of the U. S. Export-Import Bank
The program combined existing Aid grant programs with Eximbank war chest funds and Eximbank guarantees of commercial financing. Some exporters have benefited from the use of the Eximbank's war chest funds. One such exporter, a ...
‎1993
6
Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Convention of the ...
We immediately held a meeting of the finance committee of the War Chest. Everything goes before this finance committee. If it is thought right by them, then the money is drawn from the War Chest. Syracuse that same day wired ten thousand ...
International Association of Rotary Clubs
7
The War Chest
Porter Hill. ordered, 'Tell Ury to come here and show us where the rendezvous is to take place.' Muttering an oath against Captain Le Clerc, Ury came and stood beside Hornein frontof the map. * * * A meetingto passthe mysterious cargo to ...
Porter Hill, 2013
8
Political Institutions and Party-Directed Corruption in ...
benefit from building up a personal war chest is a multiplicative function of a militant's legislative ego rent and the electoral bump that building up said war chest entails. Thus militants who anticipate receiving high electoral returns from building ...
Daniel W. Gingerich, 2013
9
Senate Reports
Review Treasury and Ex-Im Bank staff will meet on an annual basis to review and discuss data and trends on the application for and use of the War Chest and the use of tied aid credit financing by foreign governments. Treasury and Ex-Im ...
United States. Congress, 1999
10
Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform
This is sometimes called the “war-chest mentality.” The “warchest” phenomenon is restricted almost entirely to incumbents, for as we will see in the next chapter, existing limits on contributions make it almost impossible for challengers to match  ...
Bradley A. Smith, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WAR CHEST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term war chest is used in the context of the following news items.
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US builds war chest despite fewer wars
Still, Congress has authorised a 38 per cent increase in the war budget over last year. The contradiction is the legacy of an emergency war fund, started in the ... «South China Morning Post, Aug 15»
2
Toy Soldiers: War Chest release date set in two weeks
Toy Soldiers: War Chest, the third game in Signal Studios' tower defense/action hybrid series, will arrive on 11th August for Xbox One and PC. PS4 players will ... «Eurogamer.net, Jul 15»
3
Deutsche Wohnen has 600 mln war chest for acquisitions - paper
FRANKFURT, July 25 German property group Deutsche Wohnen has a war chest worth roughly 600 million euros ($659 million) with which it could buy ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
4
Toy Soldiers: War Chest: We Play with He-Man, GI Joe, and Ezio
By Dave RuddenThe first two Toy Soldiers games were fun representations of playing war, even though your choice of action figures was almost exclusively out ... «IGN, Jul 15»
5
Last Two Licensed Properties of Toy Soldier: War Chest Revealed
It makes me happy to relay that we've received confirmation on the last couple of toy lines coming to the upcoming Toy Soldiers title, Toy Soldier: War Chest. «Co-Optimus.com, Jul 15»
6
Assassin's Creed's Ezio Coming to Toy Soldiers: War Chest
Toy Soldiers: War Chest is a hybrid action/tower defense game, and it's the third entry in the Toy Soldiers series. Players have the ability to either defend against ... «GameSpot, Jul 15»
7
Isis winning battle of the war chest
Terrorist force using every method at its disposal to fund its struggle, writes Indira Lakshmanan. An Islamic State fighter distributing copies of the Quran gives one ... «New Zealand Herald, Jun 15»
8
He-Man, G.I. Joe Coming to Toy Soldiers: War Chest
By Cassidee MoserA number of '80s action cartoon icons will be joining the fray in Toy Soldiers: War Chest this summer. Wielding the power of Grayskull, ... «IGN, Jun 15»
9
ACTU aims for $13m war chest to fight Tony Abbott, recruit members
The ACTU plans to amass a $13 million war chest to mobilise union activists in marginal electorates under a two-pronged strategy designed to turn voters ... «The Australian Financial Review, May 15»
10
Mayor Charlie Hales Is Building a Re-election War Chest With …
Mayor Charlie Hales hasn't officially announced he's seeking a second term in 2016—but his campaign war chest says he's made his decision. Hales has raised ... «Willamette Week, Feb 15»

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