war cabinet
noun1
Government Capitalized, Often A government committee formed in wartime to coordinate the war effort.
- 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.2020 January 2, Conrad Landin, “Strife and strikes in post-war Britain”, in Rail, page 51: