the Exchequer

Examples

The Treasury has announced new taxes.
She has a new job within the Treasury.
A spokesman for the Treasury said the Chancellor would make an announcement later in the week.

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treasury | American Dictionary

treasury
noun[ U ]
us/ˈtreʒ·ə·ri/
the government department responsible for financial matters such as spending and taxes

the Treasury | Business English

the Treasury
noun[ S, + singular or plural verb ]
 FINANCE, GOVERNMENTukus
in the UK, US, and some other countries, the government department responsible for government spending, borrowing, tax, etc.:
the Treasury Department/Secretary
The Treasury estimates that the top 1% of earners will pay about 32.3% of all taxes this year.
The Secretary of the Treasury is the principal economic advisor to the US President.

Examples of the Treasury

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The yearly subsidies from the central treasury (excluding loan and assistance) keep afloat the administrative machinery of the regional governments.
But the reduced risk to the pensioner is matched by an increased risk to the public treasury, which is left with a contingent liability.
He points out that, during the war, the experts of the treasury and the economic section of the cabinet secretariat wondered likewise.
More speci®cally, the crisis of the oligarchy coincided with the breakup of the model of collaboration between the royal and municipal treasuries.
Almost two-thirds of all retirees have annuitized and annuitization mitigates some of the longevity and investment risks faced by pensioners and public treasury.
On the other hand, the delay of the state treasuries frustrated many chiefs.
They represented a constant drain on the national treasury's financial resources.
A general inventory of delayed and inactive cases, involving administrative irregularities and heavy losses for the treasury, listed thirty voluminous files in 1876.
As stated above, import duties were effectively indexed to the exchange rate - via the aforo - sheltering the treasury from the effects of depreciation.
The treasury only started to take action when stimulated by fears of the outcome of the deliberations of the manpower sub-committee in 1928.
We can hardly exaggerate the state treasury's financial difficulties during the period under study.
Including all eleven variables meant excluding the 1993 referendum and election since data were not available for these on federal spending and treasury bond volume.
Certainly he has judged, rather than passively gathered or actively remembered what someone else had previously deposited in the treasury of experience.
Such enhanced public research requires more funding either from the general treasury or from taxes or fees from firms.
He allowed his closest associates to draw illegally from the public treasury and to accumulate wealth by whatever means they could.
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