Crossword clues for treasuries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Treasury \Treas"ur*y\, n.; pl. Treasuries. [OE. tresorie, F. tr['e]sorerie.]
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.
That department of a government which has charge of the finances.
A repository of abundance; a storehouse.
Hence, a book or work containing much valuable knowledge, wisdom, wit, or the like; a thesaurus; as, `` Maunder's Treasury of Botany.''
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A treasure. [Obs.]
--Marston.Board of treasury, the board to which is intrusted the management of all matters relating to the sovereign's civil list or other revenues. [Eng.]
--Brande & C.Treasury bench, the first row of seats on the right hand of the Speaker in the House of Commons; -- so called because occupied by the first lord of the treasury and chief minister of the crown. [Eng.]
Treasury lord. See Lord high treasurer of England, under Treasurer. [Eng.]
Treasury note (U. S. Finance), a circulating note or bill issued by government authority from the Treasury Department, and receivable in payment of dues to the government.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of treasury English)
Usage examples of "treasuries".
Just back from a normal lunch at his favorite deli, he was offering Treasuries at bargain prices on orders from upstairs, and for the moment they were just sitting out there awaiting a buyer.
The treasuries of the funerary temple were a sore temptation to every predator hi the two kingdoms, and beyond.
What sport my Lord Intef would have amongst the royal treasuries, and what a redistribution of the nation's wealth would now take place with my master doing the counting, and milking the tax-collectors of their secret hoards of savings!
It was I who built his secret treasuries for him, and hid within them the bounty that I gathered from the barons.
And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, and stored the silver, the gold, and all the vessels in the treasuries of the house of God.
And the people, the voters who filled those treasuries with their tax money.
That one didn't give shit about Roons, its thing was prowling treasuries: folk who knew swore that one melted into smoke and oozed through walls, some of the things it did, oozing seemed the only way.
It hit a couple more treasuries, dropped into Marigold Pit for some playtime in the Mimpi Hells.
If I understand this, the royal treasuries would be paid much of that money now lost to rocks and storms, along the whole length of the miserable coast.