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单词 Chancellor of the Exchequer
释义

chancellor /chänˈsə-lər/

noun
  1. A court secretary (historical)
  2. A chief minister
  3. The president, or a judge, of a court of chancery or other court
  4. The official who keeps the registers of an order of knighthood
  5. The titular or (US) active head of a university
  6. The foreman of a jury (Scot)
ORIGIN: Fr chancelier, from LL cancellārius orig an officer that had charge of records, and stood near the cancelli (L), crossbars surrounding the judgement seat

chanˈcellery or chanˈcellory noun

  1. The position, department, residence, etc of a chancellor
  2. The office attached to an embassy or consulate

chanˈcellorship noun

chancellor of a cathedral

An officer who had charge of the chapter library, custody of the common seal, superintendence of the choir practices, and headship of the cathedral schools

chancellor of a diocese

An ecclesiastical judge uniting the functions of vicar-general and official principal, appointed to assist the bishop in questions of ecclesiastical law, and hold his courts for him

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

A government minister employed on parliamentary work, nominally appointed as representative of the Queen as Duchess of Lancaster

Chancellor of the Exchequer

The chief minister of finance in the British government

Lord Chancellor or Lord High Chancellor

A senior member of the British government, historically holding the roles of Speaker of the House of Lords, head of the judiciary of England and Wales, and keeper of the Great Seal

exchequer /iks- or eks-chekˈər/

noun
  1. (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
  2. The Court of Exchequer (see below)
  3. A national treasury
  4. 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

  1. 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
  2. In Scotland a revenue court abolished in 1886, when its jurisdiction transferred to the Court of Session
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