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Definition of Treasuries
1. treasury [n] - See also: treasury
Lexicographical Neighbors of Treasuries
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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