coffer

Object

• ceiling: The interior of the dome is a coffered ceiling with an oculus, open to the sky, at the top.

Converse of object

• replenish: Little or no expense can ever be necessary for replenishing the coffers of such a bank.
• swell: The city council had trebled the number of taxis on the streets to swell the city coffers with license money.
• fill: Despite being desperate to fill the state coffers, Sarkozy kept the fee the same.
• boost: Drivers are already furious at the rising number of speed camera fines which are boosting police coffers.

Adjective modifier

• royal: With royal coffers at his disposal, Robert Vertue could ornament with a lavish hand.
• empty: The coming general election will be expensive, and we are starting with rather empty coffers.
• central: The Labor Party had asked the GMB to consider contributing an extra £ 744,000 to the Party's central coffers.
• national: Are they to carry on their litigation at the expense of the national coffers?
• public: The park tops an underground carpark for 10,000 cars, the revenues from which will return to the public coffers.
• own: The 35-year old says he would prefer to have a big turn-out at Molineux for his big day rather than swell his own coffers.

Modifies a noun

• dam: The 1100 m long wall consists of a sheet piled coffer dam, infilled with mass concrete.

Noun used with modifier

• government: The net result to the government coffers should be a small decrease.
• council: The only problem was that the job came in £ 15m over budget, all of which had to be met from council coffers.
• state: Of course, with the nationalization of the oil industry in 1972 a lot of money poured into state coffers.
• party: This in turn has plunged party coffers into crisis.

Possessives

• chancellor: The effect of the change - based on revised data - is to add an extra £ 10bn to the chancellor's coffers.
• club: And he's still a regular contributor to the club's coffers.
• government: Each pound we spend adds to the bottom line of the government's coffers.

Preposition: of

• company: Today this means that the greatest part of Britain's NHS budget goes straight into the coffers of pharmaceutical companies.