Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun military-industrial_complex

1 sense of military-industrial complex

Sense 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 Eisenhower)
       => vested interest -- (groups that seek to control a social system or activity from which they derive private benefit)