| 单词 | exchequer |
| 释义 | exchequer (once / 1252 pages) n Exchequer is a British term for the guy in the government who is in charge of the money: the treasurer. Sometimes it refers to the office in which all the money is kept, the treasury itself. If you follow British government, you may have noticed that although they have a democracy much like ours, some things are very different. One of them is that the person in the government who is in charge of the government's finances, the Treasury Secretary, is called the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The word has been around for a long time. There were exchequers in medieval England, back when exchequer offices worked for kings. WORD FAMILYexchequer: exchequers USAGE EXAMPLESShe was Exchequer Secretary in the last parliament. BBC(Mar 19, 2016) Back in October Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said he would not seek to balance the government's finances by 2020. BBC(Dec 21, 2016) George Osborne signed 2,056 Christmas cards each year when he was UK chancellor of the exchequer. BBC(Dec 09, 2016) n the funds of a government or institution or individual Syn|Hypo|Hyper treasury public treasury, till, trough a treasury for government funds bursarythe treasury of a public institution or religious order subtreasurya subordinate treasury or place of deposit fisca state treasury or exchequer or a royal treasury; originally the public treasury of Rome or the emperor's private purse cash in hand, finances, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource assets in the form of money |
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