capitalized: a department or office of state in medieval England charged with the collection and management of the royal revenue and judicial determination of all revenue causes
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capitalized: a former superior court having jurisdiction in England and Wales primarily over revenue matters and now merged with King's Bench
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often capitalized
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: the department or office of state in Great Britain and Northern Ireland charged with the receipt and care of the national revenue
their son would make beseeching requests for more money whenever his personal exchequer was getting low
Recent Examples on the WebAnd the chance of the exchequer, our treasury secretary was here recently talking to Secretary Yellen.CBS News, 11 Sep. 2022 Those medieval monarchs laid waste to England through civil war; the modern English had done the right thing in the world wars, but their exchequer was empty, their cities were in rubble, and the empire, with the loss of India in 1947, was over. Dominic Green, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022 In May, when the government decided to cut the excise duty on petrol by Rs8 and on diesel by Rs6 per litre to reduce inflationary pressures, experts had estimated the cost to the exchequer would increase by Rs85,000 crore in the ongoing fiscal. Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 4 July 2022 In October, every household will get 200 pounds ($260) off their bills to cushion the impact of rising gas prices, at a cost of around 6 billion pounds to the exchequer. Philip Aldrick, Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2022 The likely loss to the exchequer of between €2 billion to €2.4 billion is equivalent to a fifth of the State’s annual corporate tax revenue. Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 9 June 2021 Some 64m meals were consumed at 84,000 venues over the first nine days, at a cost of £336m to the exchequer.The Economist, 31 Aug. 2020 The Resolution Foundation’s Torsten Bell estimates Hunt’s plan would cost the exchequer in the region of 13 billion pounds ($16.6 billion), while Johnson’s would cost about 10 billion pounds.Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019 The company plans to ship £2.5bn-worth of polyhalite a year at full production and send an annual £470m to the exchequer.The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019 See More
Word History
Etymology
Middle English escheker, from Anglo-French, chessboard, counting table, exchequer — more at checker