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PUBLIC TREASURY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does public treasury mean? 

PUBLIC TREASURY (noun)
  The noun PUBLIC TREASURY has 1 sense:

1. a treasury for government fundsplay

  Familiarity information: PUBLIC TREASURY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PUBLIC TREASURY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A treasury for government funds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

public treasury; till; trough

Hypernyms ("public treasury" is a kind of...):

exchequer; treasury (the funds of a government or institution or individual)


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