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exchequer /iks- or eks-chekˈər/ noun- (also with cap) a department of state having charge of revenue, so named from the chequered cloth which orig covered the table on which the accounts were reckoned
- The Court of Exchequer (see below)
- A national treasury
- One's funds, finances or purse (joc)
transitive verb (rare)To proceed against in the Court of Exchequer ORIGIN: See chequer, check and chess1 exchequer bill noun A bill issued by the Exchequer, as security for money advanced to the government Chancellor of the Exchequer see under chancellor Court of Exchequer - In England orig a revenue court developed out of the judicial branch of the Exchequer, which acquired a general common-law jurisdiction by a legal fiction, became a division of the High Court of Justice in 1875, and is now merged in the Queen's (or King's) Bench Division
- In Scotland a revenue court abolished in 1886, when its jurisdiction transferred to the Court of Session
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