0 money that has been collected or saved to pay for something, especially a long fight to achieve something:
1 infml money that has been collected or saved to pay for something, esp. a long fight achieve something:
The candidates are gathering money for their election war chests.
2 a large amount of money that a company or a government keeps for a particular purpose:
He first ran up his war chest by overtaxing, and when he had a surplus he set out his pre-election bonanza.
The main differences are that such pay-offs are usually made from candidates' private campaign war chests and are part of a direct quid pro quo.
Bradley's campaign initially had strong prospects, due to high-profile endorsements and as his fundraising efforts gave him a deep war chest.
He also challenged the chamber's financial importance : it had no income of its own and was used primarily for the king's building expenses and as a war chest.
That seems to me to be the same point, only it is not for the purpose of a war chest, but other purposes.
He has been the most notorious raider of the ratepayers' war chest.
They want the money that local authorities have earmarked for public transport in 1983 in their war chest for the general election.
It is £40 billion with room to spare—the room in which the war chest is kept safely locked, and we have the key.
