Treasury

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  • noun. A place in which treasure is kept.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A place in which private or public funds are received, kept, managed, and disbursed.
  • noun. Such funds or revenues.
  • noun. A collection of literary or artistic treasures.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The department of a government in charge of the collection, management, and expenditure of the public revenue.
  • noun. A debt security, such as a bond, issued by the US Treasury.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A house, room, or chest where treasure is laid up.
  • noun. Figuratively, that wherein something precious is stored or secured; a repository.
  • noun. Specifically, a place where the public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government; also, a place where the funds of an incorporated company or private society are deposited and disbursed.
  • noun. A department of government which has control over the collection, management, and expenditure of the public revenue. See Department of the Treasury, under department.
  • noun. The officers of the British treasury department.
  • noun. A name given to a class of subterranean monuments consisting usually of a solid structure of masonry, of domical form, often with pseudo-vaulting in horizontal courses, either wholly underground or covered with a tumulus.
  • noun. Treasure.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A place or building in which stores of wealth are deposited; especially, a place where public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government; hence, also, the place of deposit and disbursement of any collected funds.
  • noun. That department of a government which has charge of the finances.
  • noun. A repository of abundance; a storehouse.
  • noun. Hence, a book or work containing much valuable knowledge, wisdom, wit, or the like; a thesaurus.”
  • noun. A treasure.
  • noun. the board to which is intrusted the management of all matters relating to the sovereign's civil list or other revenues.
  • noun. the first row of seats on the right hand of the Speaker in the House of Commons; -- so called because occupied by the first lord of the treasury and chief minister of the crown.
  • noun. See Lord high treasurer of England, under Treasurer.
  • noun. a circulating note or bill issued by government authority from the Treasury Department, and receivable in payment of dues to the government.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a place where treasure is stored safely
  • noun. a place where state or royal money and valuables are stored
  • noun. a collection or artistic or literary works
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. negotiable debt obligations of the United States government which guarantees that interest and principal payments will be paid on time
  • noun. the funds of a government or institution or individual
  • noun. the government department responsible for collecting and managing and spending public revenues
  • noun. the British cabinet minister responsible for economic strategy
  • noun. a depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely
  • noun. the federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789
  • Word Usage
    "You might consider that a routine job requirement for the secretary of the treasury is a willingness to claim that government bonds are a good investment even when he knows they are not."
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