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exchequer
[ eks-chek-er, iks-chek-er ]
noun
- a treasury, as of a state or nation.
- (in Great Britain)
- (often initial capital letter) the governmental department in charge of the public revenues.
- (formerly) an office administering the royal revenues and determining all cases affecting them.
- (initial capital letter) Also called Court of Exchequer. an ancient common-law court of civil jurisdiction in which cases affecting the revenues of the crown were tried, now merged in the King's Bench Division of the High Court.
- Informal. one's financial resources; funds:
I'd love to go, but the exchequer is a bit low.
Exchequer
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noun
exchequer
2/ ɪ°ì²õˈ³Ùʃɛ°ìÉ™ /
noun
- often capital government (in Britain and certain other countries) the accounting department of the Treasury, responsible for receiving and issuing funds
- informal.personal funds; finances
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of exchequer1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of exchequer1
Example Sentences
By mandating that the spending gaps will be filled by significant tax rises, the strategy here is to communicate overwhelming political pain tolerance to markets that lend money to the exchequer.
Between them, these perks cost the exchequer about £50bn a year.
Labour politicians Matthew Pennycook, the Greenwich and Woolwich MP, and Rachel Reeves MP, the current chancellor of the exchequer and a former junior chess champion, both made representations on their behalf.
The jury is still out on whether 'New Welfarism' is hurting the exchequer.
The whole thing oozed with a sense of perceived imminent power: that the author of the book, The Women Who Made Modern Economics, would soon be chancellor of the exchequer.
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