Treasury Department
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- noun
- /ˈtrɛʒəri dɪˈpɑrtmənt/
- Formal
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Departamento del Tesoro (EE. UU.)
- Questions regarding national budget concerns should be directed to the Treasury Department.
- U.S. Treasury Department
- Treasury Department license
- Treasury Department discretion
There's there's the Treasury Department's FinCEN agency, there's the Office of Foreign Asset Controls, OFAC.
- There's there's the Treasury Department's FinCEN agency, there's the Office of Foreign Asset Controls, OFAC.
- So you can go back to Cuba if you have a specific reason for doing it that's been approved by the Treasury Department.
- It came from the United States Treasury Department, which flagged that money being transferred from a sketchy source to Hunter Biden's firm.
- People keep saying Kevin Biden and the Treasury Department say, no, it's not taxpayers that are paying the bill.
- One of the true stories is that the guy running the Treasury Department that's in charge of of this war effort is also a Russian spy.
Examples
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The U.S. Treasury Department oversees the collection of taxes and the printing of money.
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Oil and gas companies paid $6.8 million in RFS penalties to the Treasury Department last year.
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I would like to make a deal with the United States Treasury Department.
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A report will be issued by the Treasury Department; it has come out every year.
Blog text (2) -
Your Treasury Department lost $28 million.
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Increasingly active and important roles are being performed by the Justice Department, the Treasury Department, and the intelligence agencies.
Academic text (1992) -
Applications submitted before 2012 would have to be vetted by the Treasury Department before approval.
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Paul Volcker served in the Treasury Department and was chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987.
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Further, the Treasury Department's Exempt Organizations Handbook has interpreted this language.
Academic text (2016) -
Every year, the Treasury Department releases a report on the nation's economic health.
Synonyms
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A United States government department that collects taxes and manages the country's money
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A U.S. government office that collects taxes and manages the country's money
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A government department that collects taxes and manages the country's money
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward composition of 'Treasury' (a government body overseeing finance/revenue) and 'department' (an organizational unit), so its meaning— the government department responsible for national finances—is directly derivable from the parts. This naming pattern (department/ministry of treasury/finance) is common across languages, making it immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Treasury Department comes from the simple picture of a place that keeps a country's money safe: treasury meant a store for treasure and department is a part of the government that looks after it, so the name now means the government office that 'manages the nation's money'.