coffers

Where funds accumulate

Coffers are chests or strongboxes for storing valuables, especially money.

The word almost always appears in the plural, referring to financial reserves or treasury funds: The scandal drained the party's coffers, The tax cut would add billions to corporate coffers.

A coffer is also a recessed panel in a ceiling or dome, used decoratively in architecture.

treasury

exchequer

Government financial reserves

fiscalOf public revenue
taxationCompulsory government revenue collection
deficitAmount still owed

surplus · revenue · reserves · appropriations · commonwealth

storage

chest

Ribcage region or strongbox

strongboxSecured container for valuables
lockboxSecured container for valuables
vaultSecure storage chamber

casket · safe · repository · stronghold · cache · hoard · depository · till · cashbox

wealth

riches

Abundant valuable possessions

fortuneWealth or destiny
assetsOwned items of value
holdingsProperty one owns

resources · capital · funds · finances · money · treasure · abundance · prosperity · affluence · endowment

coffers

exchequer

chest

riches

coffers

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