Treasury - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- 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
- the British cabinet minister responsible for economic strategy
- the federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789
- a depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely
Extra examples
A government official has been accused of stealing from the nation's treasury.
The fees are deposited into the state's treasury.
A part of the nation's treasury is spent on space exploration.
The author has collected a treasury of facts and lore about horses.
The treasury was in the basement of the palace.
The Treasury Department of the US
The treasury is almost empty.
...the new secretary of the treasury was instated on Monday...
...the prince emptied the treasury to ransom his son from the kidnappers...
I do not allude to the whole of the Treasury bench.
The treasury was drained by his Norman wars.
Their treasury exhausted by so frequent evacuations.
The Treasury Department plans to remove older coins from circulation and replace them with new ones.
The Treasury borrowed £40 billion, just to stay afloat.
The economy fell short of the Treasury's target of 2% growth.
Word forms
singular: treasury
plural: treasuries
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