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Definition of Treasury
1. Noun. The funds of a government or institution or individual.
Generic synonyms: Cash In Hand, Finances, Funds, Monetary Resource, Pecuniary Resource
Specialized synonyms: Public Treasury, Till, Trough, Bursary, Subtreasury, Fisc
2. Noun. The government department responsible for collecting and managing and spending public revenues.
3. Noun. Negotiable debt obligations of the United States government which guarantees that interest and principal payments will be paid on time.
Generic synonyms: Government Bond
Specialized synonyms: T-bill, Treasury Bill, Treasury Bond, Treasury Note
4. Noun. The British cabinet minister responsible for economic strategy.
Group relationships: British Cabinet
Generic synonyms: Cabinet Minister
5. Noun. The federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789.
Terms within: U.s. Mint, United States Mint, Us Mint, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Fincen, Atf, Bureau Of Alcohol Tobacco And Firearms, Financial Management Service, Office Of Intelligence Support, Ois, Comptroller Of The Currency, Bureau Of Customs, Customs Bureau, Customs Service, Uscb, Bureau Of Engraving And Printing, Internal Revenue Service, Irs
Generic synonyms: Executive Department
6. Noun. A depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely.
Definition of Treasury
1. n. A place or building in which stores of wealth are deposited; especially, a place where public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government; hence, also, the place of deposit and disbursement of any collected funds.
Definition of Treasury
1. Noun. a government department responsible for the collection, management, and expenditure of the public revenue ¹
2. Noun. a place where treasure is stored safely ¹
3. Noun. a place where state or royal money and valuables are stored ¹
4. Noun. a collection or artistic or literary works ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Treasury
1. a place where funds are received, kept, and disbursed [n -URIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Treasury
Literary usage of Treasury
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1910)
"Great amt . of deficit In treasury; efforts to meet this earnestly urged. ...
Ann. deficit In treasury for last 10 yrs.; review of causes of this deficit. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"On 1 July 1836 the treasury Department is- 1 sued an order known as the Specie
Circular, requiring all land agents to accept only specie in payment for ..."
3. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1896)
"The purpose of the proposition made to the banks by the treasury in the circular
... The local medium was to be made up of State bank-notes, treasury notes, ..."
4. Annual Report by United States Civil Service Commission (1898)
"The Comptroller of the treasury has decided that no payment could be made to a
person appointed without the approval of the Commission. ..."
5. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1883)
"EVES OF THE SUB-treasury SYSTEM. FIFTY years ago the mention of government deposits
would probably have thrown every household into heated controversy; ..."
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