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treasury Definition

treas·ury (trez̸h′ər ē)

noun pl. -·ur·ies

  1. a place where treasure is kept; room or building where valuable objects are preserved
  2. a place where public or private funds are kept, received, disbursed, and recorded
  3. the funds or revenues as of a state, corporation, or society
    1. the department of government in charge of revenue, taxation, and public finances
    2. any of the securities issued by this department
  5. a collection of treasures in art, literature, etc. a treasury of verse

Etymology: ME tresorie < OFr

treasury Synonyms

treasury

n.

repository, bank, storehouse, money exchange, central money office, exchequer, bursary, money box, strongbox, cash register, safe, depository.

treasury Law Definition

n

The branch of any government or corporation that is in charge of its financial dealings. See also Treasury Department, United States.

treasury Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • rob: Freedom only for the rich to rob the state treasury, for the big powers to bomb and pillage.
  • consult: Over 50 countries have consulted the Treasury about the PFI.
  • advise: As this evidence makes perfectly clear, it was not the ONS advising the Treasury, but the Treasury ordering around the ONS.
  • join: Before joining the Treasury, he worked as a professional economist.

Adjective modifier

  • imperial: And so they took the imperial treasury out of the arena completely.
  • royal: The costs are to be paid by the royal treasury.
  • rich: In addition to its pipe music, the County also has an exceptionally rich treasury of songs.
  • common: Each gift was thrown into the common treasury, and all were the richer by it.
  • corporate: Corporate treasury refers to treasury activities carried out in companies using financial products to support their main business.

Modifies a noun

  • o'neill: To sell his in the stands watching treasury secretary o'neill in an international.
  • spokesman: Lib Dem treasury spokesman Matthew Taylor said, " Labor's tax system is unfair.
  • secretary: Robert Rubin, Bill Clinton's treasury secretary, most certainly did.
  • bond: The rest will come from the issuing of domestic public debt in the form of treasury bonds.
  • bill: Purchase only treasury bills electrical in nature likely have been.
  • tag: Exhibits should not be placed in lever arch files but should be fastened securely, for example by treasury tags.

Noun used with modifier

  • hm: On september hm treasury american medical security insurance a type of establishment jobs was private carriers medicare.
  • temple: Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury.
  • state: Fourthly, there exists a special facility in the state treasury with regard to what is now in effect an extinct category: slaves.

Possessives

king: They said that it should have been in the king's treasury, so Abbot Whiting was obviously stealing it.

Preposition: of

temple: Any who had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the temple of the LORD in the custody of Jehiel the Gershonite.