Crossword-Solution: EXCHEQUER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Exchequer | n. | One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table. |
| Exchequer | n. | The department of state having charge of the collection and management of the royal revenue. [Eng.] Hence, the treasury; and, colloquially, pecuniary possessions in general; as, the company's exchequer is low. |
| Exchequer | v. t. | To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “EXCHEQUER”
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| A national treasury | 1 answer |
| Former PM's retreat briefly Chancellor's responsibility | 1 answer |
| Former supermarket employee? | 1 answer |
| National treasury | 1 answer |
| UK's Treasury Department | 1 answer |
| war chest | 1 answer |
| Government coffers | 2 answers |
| State treasury | 2 answers |
| fisk | 2 answers |
| fisc | 4 answers |
| coffer | 12 answers |
| treasury | 16 answers |
| Chest | 37 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with EXCHEQUER (5)
The Radical Chancellor of the Exchequer, whom the whole Tory party was supposed to be cursing for his extortions, was praised for his minor poetry, or his saddle in the hunting field.
And if they got half a pound they felt exceedingly happy: there was the joy of finding something, the joy of accepting something straight from the hand of Nature, and the joy of contributing to the family exchequer.
The admission of an item in an account, or an allowance made upon an account; Ð a term used in the English exchequer.
The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons.
Sir Thomas Trevor, a Baron of the Exchequer 1625-49, when presiding at the Bury Assizes, had a cause about wintering of cattle before him.
Quotes with EXCHEQUER (3)
I'll be your minister--""Of the exchequer? You'd rob me blind.""I would never steal from you," he'd said hotly." Oh? Where is my tourmaline necklace? Where are my missing earrings?""That necklace was hideous. It was the only way to keep you from wearing it.""My earrings?""What earrings?
Restrictionism, however, demands positive sacrifices from the national exchequer when it is carried out by the withdrawal of notes from circulation (say through the issue of interest-bearing bonds or through taxation) and their cancellation. The unpopularity of restrictionism has other causes as well. Attempts to raise the objective exchange-value of money, in the circumstances that have existed, have necessarily been limited either to single States or to a few States and at …
Fiat-money! Let the State 'create' money, and make the poor rich, and free them from the bonds of the capitalists! How foolish to forego the opportunity of making everybody rich, and consequently happy, that the State's right to create money gives it! How wrong to forego it simply because this would run counter to the interests of the rich! How wicked of the economists to assert that it is not within the power of the State to create wealth by means of the printing press!- You…
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Used 5 times in crossword archives (1991–2014).