coffering

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coffer | Business English

coffer
noun
uk /ˈkɒfər/us
[ C ]
a large strong box in which money or valuable objects are kept
 coffers[ plural ]
FINANCE
the money that an organization has in its bank accounts and available to spend:
government/party coffers
With the increased revenue coming to the state's coffers, hiring freezes can now be lifted.

Examples of coffer

coffer
The legate or delegate would operate the police as a self-sufficient unit, with funds available from the central coffers in cases only of extreme need.
The clergy, however, had already contributed handsomely to royal coffers before the crisis of the 1290s.
Neither trading conglomerate held the monopoly in the region, and profits from trade, kick-backs, and tariffs could flow in viceroyal coffers from either side.
With increased sales in all types of alcohol, revenues could serve both local and central government coffers.
All but one of the coffers on the inside of this arch are the same.
First, people must know what their taxes have financed, instead of watching them go down the 'black hole' of the government coffers.
The exercise of restraint in spending public monies is a guarantee for filling the coffers of the treasury.
Far from delivering priority goods and services efficiently, most have been shambling giants draining funds out of national coffers.
Much to the chagrin of the service, these revenues accrued largely to central coffers.
Policy-makers were enticed by socio-economic benefits and filling the crown coffers, but projectors expected to profit by serving the public good.
More generally, consider the myriad individuals who anonymously fill congregation plates and church coffers every day.
Coffered ceilings were panelled in square, hexagonal or octagonal coffers which had sunken borders enriched with egg and dart or water leaf mouldings and had a central rosette.
The regions are also free to choose whether the revenue for the choice patients should go directly to the local health enterprise (the hospital) or to the regional coffers.
The more money that flows into the coffers of our advertisement department the better our paper can be made, the wider its circulation becomes, the further its influence reaches.
Colonial officials charged clerks, secretaries and interpreters with taking censuses, collecting taxes, transcribing court proceedings and recording the flow of funds in and out of colonial coffers.
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