Definition of Treasuries

1. Noun. (plural of treasury) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Treasuries

1. treasury [n] - See also: treasury

Lexicographical Neighbors of Treasuries

treasure trails
treasure trove
treasure troves
treasured
treasureless
treasurelike
treasurer
treasurer's check
treasurer's cheque
treasurers
treasurership
treasurerships
treasures
treasuress
treasuresses
treasuries (current term)
treasuring
treasurite
treasury shares
treasury stock
treasury tag
treasury tags
treat
treat them mean, keep them keen
treatabilities
treatability
treatable
treatably
treated

Literary usage of Treasuries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Province of Burma: A Report Prepared on Behalf of the University of Chicago by Alleyne Ireland (1907)
"On this information he directs the transfer of funds from surplus to deficit treasuries. The Civil Accountants-General at the headquarters of the Provinces ..."

2. Studies of Travel: Greece by Edward Augustus Freeman (1893)
"The names are perhaps unlucky ; as, to those who have not seen the spot, they may suggest a connexion between the treasuries and the treasures which does ..."

3. Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain: With Physical Sections and Maps by Alexander von Humboldt (1822)
"The following is an account of the receipts of 11 Provincial treasuries : From 1785 to 1789, there was received in the ..."

4. Peloponnesiaca: A Supplement to Travels on the Moréa by William Martin Leake (1846)
"The remains of four treasuries at Mycenae, as here described, ... Two of these treasuries are on the eastern, and two on the western side of the ridge, ..."

5. The A B C of the Federal Reserve System by Edwin Walter Kemmerer (1920)
"CHAPTER V DEFECTIVE BANKING MACHINERY FOE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT The general funds of the treasury were kept in part in the country's nine sub-treasuries, ..."

6. A Dictionary Geographical, Statistical, and Historical of the Various by John Ramsay McCulloch, Frederick Martin (1866)
"MAUNDER'S POPULAR treasuries. THE SCIENTIFIC AND LITERARY TREASURY, Or Popular Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art. Revised and in great part ..."

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