'Treasury' definitions:
Definition of 'treasury'
From: WordNet
noun
The funds of a government or institution or individual [syn: treasury, exchequer]
noun
The government department responsible for collecting and managing and spending public revenues
noun
Negotiable debt obligations of the United States government which guarantees that interest and principal payments will be paid on time [syn: Treasury, Treasury obligations]
noun
The British cabinet minister responsible for economic strategy [syn: Treasury, First Lord of the Treasury]
noun
The federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789 [syn: Department of the Treasury, Treasury Department, Treasury, United States Treasury]
noun
A depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely
Definition of 'Treasury'
From: GCIDE
- Treasury \Treas"ur*y\, n.; pl. Treasuries. [OE. tresorie, F. tr['e]sorerie.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That department of a government which has charge of the finances. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A repository of abundance; a storehouse. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Hence, a book or work containing much valuable knowledge, wisdom, wit, or the like; a thesaurus; as, " Maunder's Treasury of Botany." [1913 Webster]
- 5. A treasure. [Obs.] --Marston. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Treasury'
From: Easton
- Treasury (Matt. 27:6; Mark 12:41; John 8:20). It does not appear that there was a separate building so called. The name was given to the thirteen brazen chests, called "trumpets," from the form of the opening into which the offerings of the temple worshippers were put. These stood in the outer "court of the women." "Nine chests were for the appointed money-tribute and for the sacrifice-tribute, i.e., money-gifts instead of the sacrifices; four chests for freewill-offerings for wood, incense, temple decoration, and burnt-offerings" (Lightfoot's Hor. Heb.).
Synonyms of 'treasury'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abundance,
- account,
- accumulation,
- advise,
- amassment,
- appraise,
- archives,
- armory,
- arsenal,
- attend,
- attic,
- available funds,
- backlog,
- balance in hand,
- bank,
- basement,
- bay,
- bin,
- bonded warehouse,
- bookcase,
- box,
- budget,
- bunker,
- bursary,
- buttery,
- cache,
- care for,
- cargo dock,
- cash,
- cash in hand,
- cash register,
- cash supply,
- cashbox,
- cellar,
- chest,
- closet,
- coffer,
- coin box,
- collection,
- collogue,
- commissariat,
- commissary,
- conduct,
- confab,
- confabulate,
- conservatory,
- consider,
- consult,
- cornucopia,
- crate,
- crib,
- cumulation,
- cupboard,
- deal with,
- deliberate,
- depositary,
- depository,
- depot,
- do with,
- dock,
- doctor,
- drawer,
- dump,
- eldorado,
- estimate,
- evaluate,
- exchequer,
- fisc,
- Fort Knox,
- funds,
- gallery,
- glory hole,
- go treat,
- godown,
- Golconda,
- gold depository,
- gold mine,
- handle,
- heap,
- hoard,
- hold,
- huddle,
- hutch,
- immediate resources,
- inventory,
- larder,
- library,
- liquid assets,
- locker,
- lumber room,
- lumberyard,
- magasin,
- magazine,
- manage,
- mass,
- material,
- materials,
- materiel,
- mine,
- money chest,
- money in hand,
- moneys,
- munitions,
- museum,
- nurse,
- parley,
- penny bank,
- piggy bank,
- pile,
- play,
- plenitude,
- plenty,
- pork barrel,
- powwow,
- provisionment,
- provisions,
- public crib,
- public till,
- public treasury,
- public trough,
- rack,
- rate,
- rations,
- ready money,
- reason,
- regard,
- repertoire,
- repertory,
- repository,
- reservoir,
- resources,
- respect,
- rick,
- safe,
- safe-deposit box,
- serve,
- set up,
- shelf,
- shout,
- stack,
- stack room,
- stake,
- stand,
- stand treat,
- stock,
- stock room,
- stock-in-trade,
- stockpile,
- storage,
- store,
- storehouse,
- storeroom,
- stores,
- strong room,
- strongbox,
- study,
- subtreasury,
- supplies,
- supply base,
- supply depot,
- supply on hand,
- take,
- tank,
- the ready,
- think,
- till,
- treasure,
- treasure house,
- treasure room,
- treasure trove,
- treasure-house,
- treat,
- use,
- value,
- vat,
- vault,
- warehouse,
- weigh,
- wield,
- wine cellar
Words containing 'Treasury'
- Treasuries,
- Board of treasury,
- Treasury bench,
- Treasury lord,
- Treasury note,
- Treasury stock,
- department of the treasury,
- public treasury,
- secretary of the treasury,
- treasury bill,
- treasury bond,
- treasury department,
- treasury obligations,
- treasury secretary,
- treasury shares,
- To put the Treasury into commission,
- first lord of the treasury,
- united states treasury