public treasury

Government money reserves

A public treasury is the funds held by a government or the department that manages them.

It refers both to the collective money available for public expenditure and to the institution responsible for collecting, safeguarding, and disbursing those funds: The scandal depleted the public treasury, She was appointed to oversee the public treasury.

Related

revenue · expenditure · blank check · fiscal responsibility · oversight · fiduciary duty · reserve · taxation · tax dollars · appropriation · allocation · pork barrel · capital management · fiscal policy · deficit spending · accountability · audit · regulation

Categories
Opposites
ownership/control

public treasurypersonal savings

Individually accumulated wealth

offshore account · trust fund

scale and scope

public treasurypiggy bank

Coin-slot savings container

pocket money · petty cash

source of funds

public treasuryprivate enterprise

Individually owned business operation

investment portfolio · business revenue

Family

public, publicly, publics, publication, publish, publisher, publishing, publicize, publicist

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Top 200,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G