Definition of "war chest" []

• An accumulation of funds to finance a war effort. (noun)
• A fund reserved for a particular purpose such as a political campaign. (noun)

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• "By valuing each dollar of Cisco’s sales at 5.5 times that of its not-exactly-undervalued peers, investors boosted Cisco’s vast war chest of what analysts called Cisco dollars—that is, highly valued shares of stock."