coffers 的 2 个定义
- a box or chest, especially one for valuables.
- coffers, a treasury; funds: The coffers of the organization were rapidly filled by the contributions.
- any of various boxlike enclosures, as a cofferdam.
- Also called caisson, lacunar. Architecture. one of a number of sunken panels, usually square or octagonal, in a vault, ceiling, or soffit.
- to deposit or lay up in or as in a coffer or chest.
- to ornament with coffers or sunken panels.
coffers 近义词
large box
更多coffers例句
- Soon his coffers were overflowing with revenue from rubber, palm oil, and ivory.
- Five, the tens or arguably hundreds of millions of dollars in dark money that flowed from corporate sources into GOP coffers.
- We on my side say: unionization, massive public investments, a tax rate that kept the coffers full, a few other things.
- Unfortunately, the interim left the property operating at a loss, its coffers drained.
- Ukraine is currently in its third recession since 2008, and is seeing foreign reserve coffers at their lowest levels since 2006.
- Railway expectations ran high; immense traffic receipts, sorely needed, ought to have swelled the coffers of the companies.
- The grateful cowmen should throw at least another five thousand into ye editor's coffers.
- Before these marvels, where shone all the gold of his coffers, the Nabob had a sudden feeling of admiration and of pride.
- We must allow that the saddles were not paid for, and that the coffers were empty, but still it made a magnificent effect.
- Three coffers whose depth is not known: the coffers of a chieftain, of the Church, of a privileged poet.