(often Exchequer) Brit the department of state in charge of the national revenue
a national or royal treasury
(Exchequer) Brit a former civil court having jurisdiction primarily over revenue and now merged with the Queen's Bench Division
Middle English escheker from Old French eschequier chessboard, counting table, from eschec check: see check1. The connection between the chessboard and the counting table relates to the checked cloth formerly used on such a table