EXCHEQUER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exchequer mean? 

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

1. the funds of a government or institution or individual

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCHEQUER (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 ("exchequer" 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 "exchequer"):

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)

 Context examples 

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)