Exchequer meaning

ĕks'chĕk'ər, ĭks-chĕk'ər
The funds in the British treasury.
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Exchequer is defined as a royal or national treasury or is defined as the account into which tax funds and other public funds are deposited.

The treasury of the English government is an example of an exchequer.

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The British governmental department charged with the collection and management of the national revenue.
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In Great Britain, the Court of Exchequer.
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A treasury, as of a nation or organization.
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Financial resources; funds.
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A treasury, as of a country or organization.
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Money in one's possession; funds; finances.
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Under the Norman kings of England, an administrative and judicial state department in charge of revenue.
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Later, the British Court of Exchequer, which had jurisdiction over all cases relating to government revenue, now merged in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice.
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The British state department in charge of the national revenue.
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Another name for the U.K. Treasury. The person in the United Kingdom who is responsible for the treasury is the chancellor of the exchequer. The word exchequer comes from an oblong, cloth-covered table with squares like those on a chequer (checker) board. In times past, the table was used as an abacus using the place value of the squares to tally tax revenues. ex-dividend A stock on which the current owner has no right to a declared dividend. When a company declares a dividend, it sets a record date on which a person must hold the stock in order to receive the dividend. When the company sets the record date, the stock exchange set the ex-dividend date, which typically is two business days before the record date. If the stock is purchased on or after its ex- dividend date, the shareholder is not eligible to receive the next dividend payment. Instead, the dividend payment goes to the seller.
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An available fund of money, especially one for a specific purpose.
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Origin of exchequer

From Anglo-Norman escheker (“chessboard”); from Medieval Latin scaccarium. This is because the cloth on which the exchequer counted money resembled a chessboard.

Sentence Examples

  • established here his courts of chancery and exchequer and the great sessions for South Wales.

  • He was incessantly on his legs in committee, and became a name for an opposition bandog who gave chancellors of the exchequer no peace.

  • An ardent opponent of Catholic Emancipation, he delivered in 1807 a speech on the subject which helped to give the deathblow to the Grenville administration, upon which he became chancellor of the exchequer under the duke of Portland, whom in 1809 he succeeded in the premiership. Notwithstanding that he had the assistance in the cabinet of no statesman of the first rank, he succeeded in retaining office till he was shot by a man named Bellingham, a bankrupt with a grievance, who had vainly applied to him for redress, in the lobby of the House of Commons on the 11th of May 1812.

  • It is characteristic of the man that the exchequer should be the chief institution created in his reign.

  • Exchequer bills 9,923,480

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