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treasury

treasury

26 5.3
Money a government, group, or person has to spend
  • noun
  • /ˈtrɛʒəri/
translation icon : tesorería
  • After the audit was completed, the committee confirmed the treasury still held sufficient funds for the upcoming projects.
  • national treasury
  • paid into the treasury
  • treasury funds

They could seize church lands, They could take the state treasury.

Examples

  • American voters have the right to determine how much of the public treasury goes toward funding military forces in Europe.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Only those contributing to the public treasury ought to have a vote in how it is spent.

    Blog text (11)
  • After years of civil war, the Roman treasury was empty.

  • And this plaque has been in the state treasury for hundreds of years.

    Blog text (17)
  • My state, California, contributes significantly more to the treasury than it gets in return.

    Blog text (11)
  • Two years into a war with Britain, and the treasury has been bled dry because of her.

  • And once in power, they looted the city treasury and used their power to shake down businesses.

  • Even if those people only paid 10% in income taxes, the treasury is out another $60,000.

    Blog text (12)
  • Bloomberg also began dipping deeper into the city treasury for more and more tax dollars for the schools.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Huge subsidies deplete the treasury while the tax base remains minuscule.

    Academic text (1994)

Synonyms

revenue
vstreasury
  • Specialized
484 3.8

Money a government gets from taxes and other sources

is broader, including held funds and balances as well as incoming money
government revenue
vstreasury
6 3.2

Money a country gets from taxes and other sources to pay for public services

is broader, covering all held funds not only incoming income
public treasury
vstreasury
  • Formal
2 4.1

Money that the government keeps and the office that holds and pays it

emphasizes the funds themselves rather than the managing department
exchequer
vstreasury
  • UK
1 9.7

Money that a government, organization, or person has

is the general name for such funds rather than a specific term
government income
vstreasury
1 3.5

Money a government gets, mainly from taxes, to pay for public services

covers those receipts but also the total funds and balances held

Compounds

46 4.1

A senior government official who manages a country's money and economy

45 3.6

A U.S. government department that manages national money, collects taxes, and makes coins and bills

A government official who leads a department that manages a nation's money and financial policy

Treasury bond
  • Specialized
10 4.9

A long loan to the U.S. government for ten years or more that pays interest

The head of the United States department that manages national money and financial policy

Treasury bill
  • Specialized
4 4.6

A short-term government loan sold for less than its value and repaid at full value without interest

Treasury note
  • Specialized
3 6.5

A loan to the government that pays interest and is repaid in one to ten years

2 4.1

Money that the government keeps and the office that holds and pays it

A U.S. government office that collects taxes and manages the country's money

1 5.8

A government worker who looks into serious money crimes like tax fraud and making fake money

1 3.7

A government department that collects taxes and manages the country's money

A senior government minister responsible for economic strategy, usually the prime minister

Treasury obligations
  • Specialized
6.4

Debt the United States government borrows by selling bonds that it pays back with interest

Shares the company has bought back and keeps that have no voting rights

treasury stock
  • Specialized
7.5

Shares a company buys back and keeps that have no voting rights or dividends

How Big

treasury
26 5.3
endowment
  • Formal
67 6.5
reserve
194 3.5
fund
913 1.8
purse
399 1.0

Surface Forms

treasury singular
treasuries plural

Morphology

treasury = treasure (semi-transparent) = treasure + y

The word is built from 'treasure' + '-y', but the specific sense of a fund or revenue is a specialized extension rather than a fully literal composition.

Etymology

Treasury comes from the same old root as treasure, meaning 'valuable things kept safe'. So a treasury is the money or funds that an organization keeps.