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exchequer

/eks-chek-er, iks-chek-er/US // ˈɛks tʃɛk ər, ɪksˈtʃɛk ər //UK // (ɪksˈtʃɛkə) //

国库,财政部,财政局,财税

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a treasury, as of a state or nation.
    • : the governmental department in charge of the public revenues. an office administering the royal revenues and determining all cases affecting them.Also called Court of Exchequer. an ancient common-law court of civil jurisdiction in which cases affecting the revenues of the crown were tried, now merged in the King's Bench Division of the High Court.
    • : Informal. one's financial resources; funds: I'd love to go, but the exchequer is a bit low.

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Examples

  • The United Kingdom’s chancellor of the exchequer has been the fastest rising star in the Tory party with clear eyes on No.

  • A video of George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer... skipping rope.

  • It's written by the wife of the man likely to be Britain's next chancellor of the Exchequer.

  • A British prime minister feuding with his chancellor of the exchequer.

  • Gordon Brown loved being Chancellor of the Exchequer, because finance is the one thing he really knows about.

  • But the continual drafts had kept ever in advance of the receipts, draining the exchequer—crippling its faculties.

  • If it pleased the godly it was a god-send for Bunn whose exchequer it filled to repletion.

  • The prime-minister, the chancellor of the exchequer, two other members of the cabinet, and an ambassador were his companions.

  • He was the inventor of Exchequer Bills; and they were popularly called Montague's notes.

  • He had been ordered by the Commissioners of the Excise to pay ten thousand pounds into the Exchequer for the public service.