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treas·ur·y
 treasury
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- pronunciation:
- tre
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- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Explorer, Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| inflections: |
treasuries |
| definition 1: |
a place where funds are deposited and held.
- synonyms:
- bank, coffer, safe, strongbox, vault
- similar words:
- depository, repository, till
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| definition 2: |
the funds of a club, business, government, or the like.
- synonyms:
- coffers, finances, funds
- similar words:
- assets, capital, holdings, money, reserve, resources
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| definition 3: |
(cap.) the government department responsible for public revenue.
- synonyms:
- revenue
- similar words:
- exchequer
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| definition 4: |
a collection of valuables or other highly-prized items.
- synonyms:
- collection
- similar words:
- assemblage, cache, compilation, hoard
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| related words: |
collection |
adjective + (n.)treasury
assistant, central, colonial, corporate, federal, general, imperial, marketable, medieval, national, public, quarterly, royal, vast
verb + (n.)treasury
bankrupt, cost, deplete, deposit, drain, flow, invest, lack, loot, plunder, pour, preserve, raid, rob, state
(n.)treasury
+ verb
exhaust, finance
noun + (n.)treasury
bank,
budget,
burden,
campaign,
coupon,
demand,
deputy,
drain,
expenditure,
funding,
jewel,
looting,
money,
purchase,
raid,
receipt,
revenue,
state,
subsidy,
surplus,
undersecretary,
yield
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The word treasury
contains the following part:
-y2
Latin and Greek
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, act, or practice of
  Example words:
assembly, beggary, calumny, carpentry, energy, fury, infamy, injury, inquiry, misery, modesty, perjury, soldiery, treasury
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