treasury
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈtrɛʒəri/
- 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
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Examples
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American voters have the right to determine how much of the public treasury goes toward funding military forces in Europe.
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Only those contributing to the public treasury ought to have a vote in how it is spent.
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After years of civil war, the Roman treasury was empty.
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And this plaque has been in the state treasury for hundreds of years.
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My state, California, contributes significantly more to the treasury than it gets in return.
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Two years into a war with Britain, and the treasury has been bled dry because of her.
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And once in power, they looted the city treasury and used their power to shake down businesses.
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Even if those people only paid 10% in income taxes, the treasury is out another $60,000.
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Bloomberg also began dipping deeper into the city treasury for more and more tax dollars for the schools.
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Huge subsidies deplete the treasury while the tax base remains minuscule.
Academic text (1994)
Synonyms
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3.8
Money a government gets from taxes and other sources
9
3.2
Money a country gets from taxes and other sources to pay for public services
5
4.1
Money that the government keeps and the office that holds and pays it
3
3.5
Money a government gets, mainly from taxes, to pay for public services
1
9.7
Money that a government, organization, or person has
Compounds
- Formal
69
4.1
A senior government official who manages a country's money and economy
- Formal
47
3.6
A U.S. government department that manages national money, collects taxes, and makes coins and bills
- Formal
18
5.3
A government official who leads a department that manages a nation's money and financial policy
- Specialized
11
4.9
A long loan to the U.S. government for ten years or more that pays interest
- Formal
5
4.1
The head of the United States department that manages national money and financial policy
- Specialized
5
4.6
A short-term government loan sold for less than its value and repaid at full value without interest
- Specialized
3
6.5
A loan to the government that pays interest and is repaid in one to ten years
- Formal
2
3.7
A government department that collects taxes and manages the country's money
2
5.8
A government worker who looks into serious money crimes like tax fraud and making fake money
- Formal
2
3.9
A U.S. government office that collects taxes and manages the country's money
- Specialized
1
6.4
Debt the United States government borrows by selling bonds that it pays back with interest
- Specialized
1
7.5
Shares a company buys back and keeps that have no voting rights or dividends
1
7.7
A senior government minister responsible for economic strategy, usually the prime minister
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.