Treasury vs Coffer - What's the difference?
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A place where treasure is stored safely.
A place where state or royal money and valuables are stored.
A collection or artistic or literary works.
(obsolete) A treasure.
A strongbox: a strong chest or box used for keeping money or valuables safe.
(architecture) An ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome; a caisson.
* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.135:
A cofferdam.
A supply or store of money, often belonging to an organization.
* Francis Bacon
* Shakespeare
A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it with raking fire.
To put money or valuables in a coffer
To decorate something, especially a ceiling, with coffers.
As nouns the difference between treasury and coffer
is that treasury is a place where treasure is stored safely while coffer is a strongbox: a strong chest or box used for keeping money or valuables safe.As a verb coffer is
to put money or valuables in a coffer.treasury
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Noun
(wikipedia treasury) (treasuries)- (Marston)
Derived terms
* treasury security * Treasury bill * treasury note * treasury bond * treasury management * treasury tagExternal links
* * *coffer
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Alternative forms
* copher (obsolete) * cophre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Prolapsed and waterstained ceiling, the sagging coffers .
- He would discharge it without any burden to the queen's coffers .
- Hold, here is half my coffer .
