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exchequer

noun as in chest

noun as in coffer

noun as in purse

noun as in treasure house

noun as in treasurer

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

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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.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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