military-industrial complex

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complex
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒm.pleks/us
/ˈkɑːm.pleks/
a large building with various connected rooms or a related group ...
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Something that was normal for the body had escaped regulation and was expanding unchecked - themilitary-industrialcomplex, the media, permissiveness, youth.
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Netsch recalled the tabula rasa created by a post-warmilitary-industrialcomplexwith nowhere to go.
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As historians of science have lately discovered, the relations between academic research and its sponsors were ambiguous : themilitary-industrialcomplexdid not always call the tune.
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Behind them is an unquantifiablemilitary-industrialcomplexwhich supplies them and extends into the space industry which cannot easily be divorced from the military side.
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It is themilitary-industrialcomplexthat is the issue.
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He sees the outpost as an outpost and not amilitary-industrialcomplex.
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Having established the state'smilitary-industrialcomplexin a short twelve months, state laboratories were soon manufacturing turpentine, castor oil, medicinal alcohol, and carbonate of soda.
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The machine construction industry consists primarily of a highly developedmilitary-industrialcomplexof large scale aircraft and ship building enterprises.
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The term is derived from themilitary-industrialcomplexof the 1950s.
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Most, if not all, carried the same message, vilifying the evils of themilitary-industrialcomplexand capitalist economy, protecting the environment and expressing socialist ideas.
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The only general to be elected president in the 20th century, he famously warned the nation about the potentially corrupting influence of themilitary-industrialcomplex.
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