treasury
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4.9
- noun
- /ˈtrɛʒəri/
- So the Treasury Department said, well, look, we no longer represent or we no longer respect the JCPOA.
- treasury secretary
- a treasury official
- government and the treasury
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- And that could be anything from HHS to Treasury to what they call other government agencies, which I think is the CIA.
- Taxpayers via the Treasury's fund that backstops this program.
- Tax the Treasury Bureau, getting everyone's tax returns?
Examples
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So the US Department of the Treasury pays the US government's bills, and to do this they issue debt.
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When I stopped being secretary of the Treasury, I got a lot of nice offers, including one from Stanford.
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The government does not have that kind of money, but the treasury, acting like a bank, can.
Blog text (13) -
Now, Mr Speaker, in this spending round, the Treasury will, as you would expect, lead by example.
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No wonder China worries about the treasury bills it holds in the hundreds of billions of dollars.
Blog text (32) -
Also, the new treasury secretary felt that foreigners were becoming more, not less, protectionist.
Academic text (2004) -
Altman is an investment banker, a former deputy treasury secretary during the Clinton administration.
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Treasury department handles counterfeiters.
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Floating the Egyptian pound and initiating treasury bill auctions brought some $14 billion in reserves into the central bank coffers.
Academic text (1993) -
The local treasury manages the funds collected from taxes and allocates them for public projects.
Synonyms
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3.6
A U.S. government department that manages national money, collects taxes, and makes coins and bills
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4.1
Money that the government keeps and the office that holds and pays it
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8.4
The government department that manages a country's money and taxes
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3.7
A government department that collects taxes and manages the country's money
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3.9
A U.S. government office that collects taxes and manages the country's money
Compounds
- Formal
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4.1
A senior government official who manages a country's money and economy
- Formal
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3.6
A U.S. government department that manages national money, collects taxes, and makes coins and bills
- Formal
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5.3
A government official who leads a department that manages a nation's money and financial policy
- Specialized
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4.9
A long loan to the U.S. government for ten years or more that pays interest
- Formal
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4.1
The head of the United States department that manages national money and financial policy
- Specialized
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4.6
A short-term government loan sold for less than its value and repaid at full value without interest
- Specialized
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6.5
A loan to the government that pays interest and is repaid in one to ten years
- Formal
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3.7
A government department that collects taxes and manages the country's money
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5.8
A government worker who looks into serious money crimes like tax fraud and making fake money
- Formal
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3.9
A U.S. government office that collects taxes and manages the country's money
- Specialized
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6.4
Debt the United States government borrows by selling bonds that it pays back with interest
- Specialized
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7.5
Shares a company buys back and keeps that have no voting rights or dividends
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7.7
A senior government minister responsible for economic strategy, usually the prime minister
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Treasury comes from the same old root as treasure, meaning 'valuable things kept safe'. So the treasury is the government department that looks after the country's money.