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exchequer

/ɛksˈt͡ʃɛ.kɚ/

exchequer noun: an office of revenue taxation; a treasury.

Noun

exchequer (plural exchequers)

  1. An office of revenue taxation; a treasury.
  2. An available fund of money, especially one for a specific purpose.
    • "A couple, eh, my girl?" he replied, fishing deeply into both his trouser pockets. "You don't mean tanners by any chance? Well, that's the state of the exchequer." Two sixpences and a few coppers were the result of his investigation.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London

Verb

exchequer (third-person singular simple present exchequers, present participle exchequering, simple past and past participle exchequered)

  1. (transitive) To proceed against (a person) in the Court of Exchequer.

Proper noun capitalized: Exchequer

Exchequer

  1. (UK) The government department that collects and manages revenue.
    Synonyms:
    Treasury

exchequer meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

exchequer in Tamil

கருவூலம், நிதித் துறை கருவூலம், வைப்பிடம், வைப்புழி, அரசு நிதிக் கருவூலம்

exchequer in Urdu

محکمہ خزانہ

exchequer in Bengali

রাজকোষ, সরকারি কোষাগার, অর্থ বিভাগ

exchequer in Malayalam

ബ്രിട്ടനിലെ പഴയ ധനവകുപ്പ്, സർക്കാർ ഖജനാവ്, ട്രഷറി, ഒരാളുടെ ആസ്തി
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exchequer in Kannada
ರಾಜ್ಯದ ಖಜಾನೆ, ಸರ್ಕಾರದ ಬೊಕ್ಕಸ, ಬೊಕ್ಕಸ
exchequer in Punjabi
ਖਜਾਨਾ khajānā

Synonyms of exchequer

Forms of exchequer

Noun
pluralexchequers
alternative form (obsolete)exchecker
Verb
third-person singular presentexchequers
present participleexchequering
past participleexchequered
pastexchequered

Origin of exchequer

From Middle English escheker, from Anglo-Norman escheker (“chessboard”), from Medieval Latin scaccarium. This is because the cloth on which the treasurer counted money was chequered like a chessboard.

Proprialization of exchequer.

Words formed from exchequer

Phrases with exchequer

Questions about exchequer

What does exchequer mean?
Exchequer means an office of revenue taxation; a treasury.
What is exchequer in Tamil?
Exchequer in Tamil is கருவூலம், நிதித் துறை கருவூலம், வைப்பிடம். See Exchequer meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is exchequer?
Exchequer can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce exchequer?
Exchequer is pronounced /ɛksˈt͡ʃɛ.kɚ/.
What is the plural of exchequer?
The plural of exchequer is exchequers.

Words near exchequer in the dictionary

  1. excheator
  2. excheators
  3. excheats
  4. exchecker
  5. excheckers
  6. exchequer
  7. exchequer bill
  8. exchequer bills
  9. Exchequer of the Jews
  10. exchequered
  11. exchequering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: exchequer (page history and authors); Exchequer (page history and authors); exchequer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exchequer (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exchequer (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exchequer (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exchequer (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਖਜਾਨਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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