Definition of treasury

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Treasury (n.) A treasure.

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Bankrupt :: Bankrupt (a.) Depleted of money; not having the means of meeting pecuniary liabilities; as, a bankrupt treasury..
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..
Exhaust :: Exhaust (v. t.) To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury..
Fisc :: Fisc (n.) A public or state treasury.
Seven-thirties :: Seven-thirties (n. pl.) A name given to three several issues of United States Treasury notes, made during the Civil War, in denominations of $50 and over, bearing interest at the rate of seven and three tenths (thirty hundredths) per cent annually. Within a few years they were all redeemed or funded..
Surplus :: Surplus (n.) Specifically, an amount in the public treasury at any time greater than is required for the ordinary purposes of the government..
Bursary :: Bursary (n.) The treasury of a college or monastery.
Treasury :: Treasury (n.) That department of a government which has charge of the finances.
Opisthodome :: Opisthodome (n.) A back chamber; especially, that part of the naos, or cella, farthest from the main entrance, sometimes having an entrance of its own, and often used as a treasury..
Fiscal :: Fiscal (a.) Pertaining to the public treasury or revenue.
Secretary :: Secretary (n.) An officer of state whose business is to superintend and manage the affairs of a particular department of government, and who is usually a member of the cabinet or advisory council of the chief executive; as, the secretary of state, who conducts the correspondence and attends to the relations of a government with foreign courts; the secretary of the treasury, who manages the department of finance; the secretary of war, etc..
Treasury :: Treasury (n.) 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..
Treasury :: Treasury (n.) A treasure.
Subtreasuries :: Subtreasurer (n.) The public officer who has charge of a subtreasury.
Deplete :: Deplete (a.) To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or resources, a treasury of money, etc..
Thesaurus :: Thesaurus (n.) A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia..
Confiscate :: Confiscate (v. t. ) To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.
Intreasure :: Intreasure (v. t.) To lay up, as in a treasury; to hoard..
Purse :: Purse (n.) Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse..
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