TREASURY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Treasury mean? 

• TREASURY (noun)
  The noun TREASURY has 6 senses:

1. the funds of a government or institution or individual

2. the government department responsible for collecting and managing and spending public revenues

3. negotiable debt obligations of the United States government which guarantees that interest and principal payments will be paid on time

4. the British cabinet minister responsible for economic strategy

5. the federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789

6. a depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely

  Familiarity information: TREASURY used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREASURY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The funds of a government or institution or individual

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

exchequer; treasury

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 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:

Negotiable debt obligations of the United States government which guarantees that interest and principal payments will be paid on time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

Treasury; Treasury obligations

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)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The British cabinet minister responsible for economic strategy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

First Lord of the Treasury; Treasury

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 federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Department of the Treasury; Treasury; Treasury Department; United States Treasury

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 6

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)

 Context examples 

I think, moreover, that Nature was not to him that treasury of delight it was to his sisters.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I mentioned the prudent management of our treasury; the valour and achievements of our forces, by sea and land.

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

After all, it is a question of money with these fellows, and I have the British treasury behind me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There’s the Treasury on the left, and the Horse Guards, and the Admiralty, where the stone dolphins are carved above the gate.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A Mr. and Mrs. Gulpidge were of the party, who had something to do at second-hand (at least, Mr. Gulpidge had) with the law business of the Bank; and what with the Bank, and what with the Treasury, we were as exclusive as the Court Circular.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This household happiness did not come all at once, but John and Meg had found the key to it, and each year of married life taught them how to use it, unlocking the treasuries of real home love and mutual helpfulness, which the poorest may possess, and the richest cannot buy.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He fell next upon the management of our treasury; and said, he thought my memory had failed me, because I computed our taxes at about five or six millions a-year, and when I came to mention the issues, he found they sometimes amounted to more than double; for the notes he had taken were very particular in this point, because he hoped, as he told me, that the knowledge of our conduct might be useful to him, and he could not be deceived in his calculations.

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

Immense deference was shown to the Henry Spikers, male and female; which Agnes told me was on account of Mr. Henry Spiker being solicitor to something or to somebody, I forget what or which, remotely connected with the Treasury.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In the midst of these consultations, several officers of the army went to the door of the great council-chamber, and two of them being admitted, gave an account of my behaviour to the six criminals above-mentioned; which made so favourable an impression in the breast of his majesty and the whole board, in my behalf, that an imperial commission was issued out, obliging all the villages, nine hundred yards round the city, to deliver in every morning six beeves, forty sheep, and other victuals for my sustenance; together with a proportionable quantity of bread, and wine, and other liquors; for the due payment of which, his majesty gave assignments upon his treasury:—for this prince lives chiefly upon his own demesnes; seldom, except upon great occasions, raising any subsidies upon his subjects, who are bound to attend him in his wars at their own expense.

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

He represented to the emperor the low condition of his treasury; that he was forced to take up money at a great discount; that exchequer bills would not circulate under nine per cent. below par; that I had cost his majesty above a million and a half of sprugs (their greatest gold coin, about the bigness of a spangle) and, upon the whole, that it would be advisable in the emperor to take the first fair occasion of dismissing me.

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