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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. an extraordinary power exercised (usually by the executive branch) in the prosecution of a war and involving an extension of the powers that the government normally has in peacetime; 



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

war power
    n 1: an extraordinary power exercised (usually by the executive
         branch) in the prosecution of a war and involving an
         extension of the powers that the government normally has in
         peacetime