Crossword clues for treasury
treasury
- Hear about a user playing for funds
- Try a ruse to fix where your taxes go
- Cabinet department
- Collection of stories
- Department with public funds
- Department first headed by Hamilton
- Government's revenue department
- Government funds locale
- Government coffers
- Fund source
- Finance department
- Currency-printing department
- The federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances
- The Treasury Department was created in 1789
- The British cabinet minister responsible for economic strategy
- The government department responsible for collecting and managing and spending public revenues
- The funds of a government or institution or individual
- A depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely
- Fisc
- Hamilton's post in 1789
- Regan's department
- Government finance department
- Government financiers
- Arrest guy stupidly wasting first of government funds
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A place where treasure is stored safely. 2 A place where state or royal money and valuables are stored. 3 A collection or artistic or literary works. 4 (context obsolete English) A treasure.
WordNet
n. the funds of a government or institution or individual [syn: exchequer]
the government department responsible for collecting and managing and spending public revenues
the British cabinet minister responsible for economic strategy [syn: First Lord of the Treasury]
the federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789 [syn: Department of the Treasury, Treasury Department, United States Treasury]
a depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely
Wikipedia
A treasury is either
- A government department related to finance and taxation.
- A place or Schatzkammer where currency or precious items ( gold, diamonds, etc.) is/are kept.
The head of a treasury is typically known as a treasurer. This position may not necessarily have the final control over the actions of the treasury, particularly if they are not an elected representative.
The adjective for a treasury is normally "treasurial". The adjective "tresorial" can also be used, but this normally means pertaining to a treasurer.
A Treasury is a financial safe-house or lender of last resort. By extension the word also means:
Usage examples of "treasury".
Potomac, searching for an ex-clerk of the Treasury Department, James Taliaferro, who had absconded with important documents.
This case involved the validity of an act of Congress directing the judge of the territorial court of Florida to examine and adjudge claims of Spanish subjects against the United States and to report his decisions with evidence thereon to the Secretary of the Treasury who in turn was to pay the award to the claimant if satisfied that the decisions were just and within the terms of the treaty of cession.
FELLOW-CITIZENS:--When the General Assembly, now about adjourning, assembled in November last, from the bankrupt state of the public treasury, the pecuniary embarrassments prevailing in every department of society, the dilapidated state of the public works, and the impending danger of the degradation of the State, you had a right to expect that your representatives would lose no time in devising and adopting measures to avert threatened calamities, alleviate the distresses of the people, and allay the fearful apprehensions in regard to the future prosperity of the State.
Trade was hampered by widespread piracy, agriculture was so inefficient that the population was never fed adequately, the name exchequer emerged to describe the royal treasury because the officials were so deficient in arithmetic they were forced to use a chequered cloth as a kind of abacus when making calculations.
By it I request my very reverend archbishop in Christ, the father of the metropolitan church of the city of Manila, and charge the venerable and devout fathers-provincial and other superiors of all the orders in the territory of his archbishopric, to note that they are to inform my governor of the said islands whenever such cases shall occur to the prejudice of my treasury, and that the culprits be punished as is fitting.
Court sustained the act conferring powers on the Florida territorial court to examine claims arising under the Spanish treaty and to report his decisions and the evidence on which they were based to the Secretary of the Treasury for subsequent action.
The Treasury Department will never believe in this story of biocontrol, alien plants, astatine, and human robots.
On the day following she stole out of the house into the town and made her way to the Kasbah, and Ali found her in the apartments of the wife of the Basha, who had lit upon her as she seemed to ramble aimlessly through the courtyard from the Treasury to the Hall of Justice, and from there to the gate of the prison.
They were intoxicated by his wealth and power: his treasury, the Beit el Mai, held gold, jewels and millions in specie, the spoils of his conquests and the sack of the principal cities of the Nile.
When Osman and al-Noor reached his double storeyed house in the south quarter, which lay between the Beit el Mai, the treasury, and the slave market, dawn was breaking and a dozen of his aggagiers were sitting in the courtyard being fed by the house slaves a breakfast of honey-roasted lamb and dhurra cakes with steaming pots of syrupy black Abyssinian coffee.
There had been men, such as Lord Fawn on one side and Mr Boffin on the other, who had found themselves stranded disagreeably,--with no certain position,--unwilling to sit behind a Treasury bench from which they were excluded, and too shy to place themselves immediately opposite.
Newcastle may call himself First Lord of the Treasury, but it is Bute who controls affairs.
With such conditions I could not venture to decide on my own responsibility, although, personally, I thought them reasonable enough, the impoverished state of the French treasury being taken into consideration.
The resources of the Roman treasury were exhausted by the increase of pay, by the repetition of donatives, and by the invention of new emolument and indulgences, which, in the opinion of the provincial youth might compensate the hardships and dangers of a military life.
Desprez, as has been stated, had, with the concurrence of the Treasury, been allowed to take upon himself all the risk of executing the treaty, by which 150,000,000 were to be advanced for the year 1804, and 400,000,000 for the year 1805.