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TREASURY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("treasury" is a kind of...):
deposit; depositary; depository; repository (a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The government department responsible for collecting and managing and spending public revenues
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("treasury" is a kind of...):
government department (a department of government)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789
Synonyms:
Department of the Treasury; Treasury; Treasury Department; United States Treasury
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Treasury" is a kind of...):
executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Treasury"):
Internal Revenue Service; IRS (the bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections)
Bureau of Engraving and Printing (the agency of the Treasury Department that produces currency)
Bureau of Customs; Customs Bureau; Customs Service; USCB (the agency of the Treasury Department that enforces import tariffs)
Comptroller of the Currency (the agency of the Treasury Department responsible for controlling the currency)
Office of Intelligence Support; OIS (agency that oversees the intelligence relationships of the Treasury's offices and bureaus and provides a link between the Intelligence Community and officials responsible for international economic policy)
Financial Management Service (the federal agency in the Treasury Department that manages the government's disbursement and collection systems and provides central accounting and financial reporting)
ATF; Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (the law enforcement and tax collection agency of the Treasury Department that enforces federal laws concerning alcohol and tobacco products and firearms and explosives and arson)
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; FinCEN (a law enforcement agency of the Treasury Department responsible for establishing and implementing policies to detect money laundering)
U.S. Mint; United States Mint; US Mint (the mint that manufactures and distributes United States coins for circulation through Federal Reserve Banks; processes gold and silver bullion)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The British cabinet minister responsible for economic strategy
Synonyms:
First Lord of the Treasury; Treasury
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Treasury" is a kind of...):
cabinet minister (a person who is a member of the cabinet)
Holonyms ("Treasury" is a member of...):
British Cabinet (the senior ministers of the British government)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The funds of a government or institution or individual
Synonyms:
exchequer; treasury
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("treasury" is a kind of...):
cash in hand; finances; funds; monetary resource; pecuniary resource (assets in the form of money)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "treasury"):
public treasury; till; trough (a treasury for government funds)
bursary (the treasury of a public institution or religious order)
subtreasury (a subordinate treasury or place of deposit)
fisc (a state treasury or exchequer or a royal treasury; originally the public treasury of Rome or the emperor's private purse)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Negotiable debt obligations of the United States government which guarantees that interest and principal payments will be paid on time
Synonyms:
Treasury; Treasury obligations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("Treasury" is a kind of...):
government bond (a bond that is an IOU of the United States Treasury; considered the safest security in the investment world)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Treasury"):
T-bill; Treasury bill (a short-term obligation that is not interest-bearing (it is purchased at a discount); can be traded on a discount basis for 91 days)
Treasury bond (a debt instrument with maturities of 10 years or longer)
Treasury note (securities with maturities of 1 to 10 years; sold for cash or in exchange for maturing issues or at auction)
Context examples:
I told him, “that in the kingdom of Tribnia, by the natives called Langdon, where I had sojourned some time in my travels, the bulk of the people consist in a manner wholly of discoverers, witnesses, informers, accusers, prosecutors, evidences, swearers, together with their several subservient and subaltern instruments, all under the colours, the conduct, and the pay of ministers of state, and their deputies. The plots, in that kingdom, are usually the workmanship of those persons who desire to raise their own characters of profound politicians; to restore new vigour to a crazy administration; to stifle or divert general discontents; to fill their coffers with forfeitures; and raise, or sink the opinion of public credit, as either shall best answer their private advantage. It is first agreed and settled among them, what suspected persons shall be accused of a plot; then, effectual care is taken to secure all their letters and papers, and put the owners in chains. These papers are delivered to a set of artists, very dexterous in finding out the mysterious meanings of words, syllables, and letters: for instance, they can discover a close stool, to signify a privy council; a flock of geese, a senate; a lame dog, an invader; the plague, a standing army; a buzzard, a prime minister; the gout, a high priest; a gibbet, a secretary of state; a chamber pot, a committee of grandees; a sieve, a court lady; a broom, a revolution; a mouse-trap, an employment; a bottomless pit, a treasury; a sink, a court; a cap and bells, a favourite; a broken reed, a court of justice; an empty tun, a general; a running sore, the administration.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
