Treasury : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Treasury	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
treasury n the funds of a government or institution or individual Synonym(s): treasury, exchequer the government department responsible for collecting and managing and spending public revenues negotiable debt obligations of the United States government which guarantees that interest and principal payments will be paid on time Synonym(s): Treasury, Treasury obligations the British cabinet minister responsible for economic strategy Synonym(s): Treasury, First Lord of the Treasury the federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789 Synonym(s): Department of the Treasury, Treasury Department, Treasury, United States Treasury a depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Treasury \Treas"ury\, n.; pl. {Treasuries}. [OE. tresorie, F. tr[82]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. 2. That department of a government which has charge of the finances. 3. A repository of abundance; a storehouse. 4. Hence, a book or work containing much valuable knowledge, wisdom, wit, or the like; a thesaurus; as, [bd] Maunder's Treasury* of Botany.[b8] 5. A treasure. [Obs.] --Marston. {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.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [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.).