treasury

IPA: trˈɛʒɝi

A place where treasure is stored safely.
A place where state or royal money and valuables are stored.
A collection of artistic or literary works.
(obsolete) A treasure.
A government department responsible for the collection, management, and expenditure of public revenue.
A bond (security) issued by such a department, in particular the United States Department of the Treasury.
(government) Ellipsis of treasury department. [A government department that manages government finances.]

Examples of "treasury" in Sentences

The treasury is empty except for the IOU's to China.
Their defense: “We won the election, so the treasury is ours.”
If the treasury is actually borrowing money we are beyond fucked.
The T.A.R.P. money that's returned to the treasury is supposed to be used for retiring our debt, or not allowing our debt to continue to rise, as it has been.
You might consider that a routine job requirement for the secretary of the treasury is a willingness to claim that government bonds are a good investment even when he knows they are not.
What's more, not only have many of the bailed-out banks paid back their loans, the U.S. treasury is about to get a 33% profit on its stake in Citiback as they sell off some of thier shares.
They put him at last into a dungeon underground, which they called the treasury, a place into which there came no air nor light from abroad; and, which, having no doors, was closed with a great stone.
Mr. Soros called on the authorities to adopt a plan pioneered by the late Italian central banker Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa , under which the European Financial Stability Facility would buy short-term treasury bills at low interest rates from countries with troublesome debt burdens.
Moreover, since the US treasury is assumed to have virtually zero default risk and thus borrows at the risk-free rate, the nominal rate should be the time value of the money (the real rate) plus the nominal inflation rate, which pegs the inflation expectation the CBPP is using at near 5%.