treasury   (Sound)

The noun treasury has 6 senses

• treasury, exchequer -- (the funds of a government or institution or individual)


• treasury -- (the government department responsible for collecting and managing and spending public revenues)


• Treasury, Treasury obligations -- (negotiable debt obligations of the United States government which guarantees that interest and principal payments will be paid on time)


• Treasury, First Lord of the Treasury -- (the British cabinet minister responsible for economic strategy)


• Department of the Treasury, Treasury Department, Treasury, United States Treasury -- (the federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789)


• treasury -- (a depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely)