war cabinet

English

Noun

war cabinet (plural war cabinets)

1. (government, often capitalised) A government committee formed in wartime to coordinate the war effort.
   • 2020 January 2, Conrad Landin, “Strife and strikes in post-war Britain”, in Rail, page 51:

     Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George was still holding meetings of the War Cabinet, a committee he had established on entering Downing Street three years earlier to put key decisions in the hands of a group of select ministers.