TREASURER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does treasurer mean? 

• TREASURER (noun)
  The noun TREASURER has 1 sense:

1. an officer charged with receiving and disbursing funds

  Familiarity information: TREASURER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREASURER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An officer charged with receiving and disbursing funds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

financial officer; treasurer

Hypernyms ("treasurer" is a kind of...):

money dealer; money handler (a person who receives or invests or pays out money)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "treasurer"):

bursar (the treasurer at a college or university)

chamberlain (the treasurer of a municipal corporation)

state treasurer (the treasurer for a state government)

Derivation:

treasurership (the position of treasurer)

 Context examples 

My friend Reldresal, principal secretary for private affairs, is, in my opinion, if I am not partial, the second after the treasurer; the rest of the great officers are much upon a par.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Because he is treasurer and manager of the establishment.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Flimnap, the treasurer, is allowed to cut a caper on the straight rope, at least an inch higher than any other lord in the whole empire.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I will even tell you the name of the establishment, where I passed six years as a pupil, and two as a teacher—Lowood Orphan Asylum, —shire: you will have heard of it, Mr. Rivers? —the Rev. Robert Brocklehurst is the treasurer.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

These false informations, which I afterwards came to the knowledge of by an accident not proper to mention, made the treasurer show his lady for some time an ill countenance, and me a worse; and although he was at last undeceived and reconciled to her, yet I lost all credit with him, and found my interest decline very fast with the emperor himself, who was, indeed, too much governed by that favourite.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Mr. Brocklehurst, who, from his wealth and family connections, could not be overlooked, still retained the post of treasurer; but he was aided in the discharge of his duties by gentlemen of rather more enlarged and sympathising minds: his office of inspector, too, was shared by those who knew how to combine reason with strictness, comfort with economy, compassion with uprightness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The treasurer took a fancy to be jealous of his wife, from the malice of some evil tongues, who informed him that her grace had taken a violent affection for my person; and the court scandal ran for some time, that she once came privately to my lodging.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Flimnap, the lord high treasurer, attended there likewise with his white staff; and I observed he often looked on me with a sour countenance, which I would not seem to regard, but ate more than usual, in honour to my dear country, as well as to fill the court with admiration.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But he was at last in pain at my long absence; and after consulting with the treasurer and the rest of that cabal, a person of quality was dispatched with the copy of the articles against me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The treasurer and admiral insisted that you should be put to the most painful and ignominious death, by setting fire to your house at night, and the general was to attend with twenty thousand men, armed with poisoned arrows, to shoot you on the face and hands.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)