Wiktionary
n. The armed forces of a nation together with the industries that supply their weapons and materiel.
WordNet
n. 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
Usage examples of "military-industrial complex".
The crypto-industrial complex, like the military-industrial complex of the Cold War, is a cozy fraternity of business executives with close, expensive contractual ties to NSA.
But the military-industrial complex is no longer the primary driver of society.
At last, the military-industrial complex of the United States - the sprawling, interconnected mass of semi-covert interests and alliances out of which the space program had been spawned in the first place - had turned in on itself, and was consuming its own children.
Many of you know him as a pillar of the multinational military-industrial complex.
Even as a science student it had seemed to her a jobs-for-the-boys project dominated by aviators and engineers, a bid for power and wealth by the military-industrial complex, with science goals a fig-leaf justification at best, just as manned space travel always had been.
As I watched the American military-industrial complex grow after World War Two I kept remembering Hitler's analysis, and I kept thinking how right the son of a bitch was.
As I watched the American military-industrial complex grow after World War Two I kept remembering Hitler's analy.
The president wasn't a vindictive man but he had taken great pleasure in watching the might of the military and the military-industrial complex rendered impotent by something they couldn't understand.
Another argument is that human missions to Mars will occupy the military-industrial complex, diffusing the temptation to use its considerable political muscle to exaggerate external threats and pump up defense funding.