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Treasury

noun

(pl. treasuries)

The funds of a government or institution or individual. Synonym: exchequer.

The government department responsible for collecting and managing and spending public revenues.

Negotiable debt obligations of the United States government which guarantees that interest and principal payments will be paid on time. Synonym: Treasury obligations.

The British cabinet minister responsible for economic strategy. Synonym: First Lord of the Treasury.

The federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789. Synonyms: Department of the Treasury, Treasury Department, United States Treasury.

A depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely.

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... large transfer payments from the US Federal Treasury into which Guamanians pay no income or excise taxes; under the provisions of a special law of Congress, the Guam Treasury, rather than the US Treasury, receives federal income taxes paid by military and civilian Federal employees stationed in ...

— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... very little and want to know more. As I told you, my name is Billy Hurd, and, as I did not tell you, I am the detective whom the Treasury has placed in charge ...

— The Opal Serpent • Fergus Hume

... classical forms, paid a homage to popular tradition in his delightful Contes de ma Mere l'Oie (if, indeed, the tales be his), which have been a joy to generations of children. With inferior art, Madame d'Aulnoy added to the golden treasury for the young. When, fifteen or twenty years after the earlier war, a new campaign began between the Ancients and the Moderns, the philosophical discussion of the idea of progress had separated itself from the literary quarrel. But in the tiltings of Lamotte-Houdart, the champion ...

— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden

... account in Karl Helfferich's "World War," Vol. II., p. 322, that the Secretary of the Treasury in Berlin was in favor of this policy, which I held to be the only possible one. When he stated, as before mentioned, that his proposal had found no support from the Foreign Office, ...

— My Three Years in America • Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff

... public pulpits salaried by the treasury, the professor abstain rigorously from endangering in the slightest degree the respect due to the laws ...

— Essays on Political Economy • Frederic Bastiat

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