Definition of treasury

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Treasury (n.) That department of a government which has charge of the finances.

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Treasury :: Treasury (n.) A repository of abundance; a storehouse.
Pap :: Pap (n.) Nourishment or support from official patronage; as, treasury pap..
Thesaurus :: Thesaurus (n.) A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia..
Bursary :: Bursary (n.) The treasury of a college or monastery.
Unappropriated :: Unappropriated (a.) Not granted for, or applied to, any specific purpose; as, the unappropriated moneys in the treasury..
Department :: Department (v. i.) Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instruction; as, the medical department; the department of physics..
Purse :: Purse (n.) Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse..
Surplus :: Surplus (n.) Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government..
Treasurer :: Treasurer (n.) One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority; one who has charge of collected funds; as, the treasurer of a society or corporation..
Subtreasuries :: Subtreasurer (n.) The public officer who has charge of a subtreasury.
Intreasure :: Intreasure (v. t.) To lay up, as in a treasury; to hoard..
Public :: Public (a.) Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; -- opposed to private; as, the public treasury..
Milreis :: Milreis (n.) A Portuguese money of account rated in the treasury department of the United States at one dollar and eight cents; also, a Brazilian money of account rated at fifty-four cents and six mills..
Bankrupt :: Bankrupt (a.) Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury..
Subtriangular :: Subtreasury (n.) A subordinate treasury, or place of deposit; as, the United States subtreasury at New York..
Disburse :: Disburse (v. t.) To pay out; to expend; -- usually from a public fund or treasury.
Reimburse :: Reimburse (v. t.) To replace in a treasury or purse, as an equivalent for what has been taken, lost, or expended; to refund; to pay back; to restore; as, to reimburse the expenses of a war..
Treasury :: Treasury (n.) Hence, a book or work containing much valuable knowledge, wisdom, wit, or the like; a thesaurus; as, Maunder's Treasury of Botany..
Confiscate :: Confiscate (v. t. ) To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.
Revenue :: Revenue (n.) The annual yield of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a nation, state, or municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use..
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