Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a country's military establishment and the industries that produce arms and other military equipment;
- Example: "we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex"--Dwight David Eisenhower
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
military-industrial complex
n 1: 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