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# treasury

«treasury» in Mova's school dictionary: **The government department that manages a country's money…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a treasury, treasuries; the Treasury)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (the Treasury) The government department that manages a country's money, taxes and spending. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treasury/#m1)

2) A place where treasure or money is kept. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treasury/#m2)

3) A collection of valuable things, such as a treasury of poems or stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treasury/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In civics and news, «the Treasury» (UK, US, Australia and others) decides on taxes and spending. In history and stories, a castle's treasury stores gold. In books, «a treasury of fairy tales» is a big collection. Phrases: «the Treasury», «a treasury of», «royal treasury».

### examples

- The Treasury controls how the government spends money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treasury/#x1)
- The king's treasury was full of gold coins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treasury/#x2)
- I got «A Treasury of Bedtime Stories» for my birthday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treasury/#x3)
- The thieves tried to break into the treasury. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treasury/#x4)
- The museum is a treasury of ancient art. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treasury/#x5)
- The Treasury announced new taxes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treasury/#x6)
- Pearls and flowers were gathered up and taken to the treasury. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treasury/#x7)

### note

Capital «T» for the government department. Plural «treasuries». «Treasury» is a place or department; «treasurer» is a person — do not mix them up.

### In the corpora

- ['Is not this laid up in store with Me, sealed up in My treasuries?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.919/)
- [That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance, and that I may fill their treasuries.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.224/)
- [Hast thou entered the treasuries of the snow, or hast thou seen the treasuries of the hail,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.1026/)
- [The Tirshatha gave to the treasury a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests' tunics.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.216/)
- [Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the wine and the oil unto the treasuries.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.418/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «treasury» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treasury/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.