(n.) A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables.
(n.) Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural.
(n.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.
(n.) A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire.
(n.) The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam.
(v. t.) To put into a coffer.
(v. t.) To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering.
(v. t.) To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.
Example Sentences:
(1) He claimed payroll tax and coal royalties – which go to state coffers – would deliver a profit on the rail investment after three years.
(2) Through a multibillion-dollar public offering of stock, Goldman hopes to replenish its coffers sufficiently to return $10bn of money from the US treasury's troubled asset relief programme (Tarp).
(3) "I cannot imagine that people can trust a party that – for 12 years – put in place a director to raid the coffers of Petrobras," Silva said at a speech in Rio last week that called for executives to be appointed by an independent search committee.
(4) Former Rwandan ambassador to Washington, Theogene Rudasingwa, explained to Newsweek in a January article how the Rwandan government extracted money out of the DRC: "After the first Congo war, money began coming in through military channels and never entered the coffers of the Rwandan state," says Rudasingwa, Kagame's former lieutenant.
(5) The high street underpins the UK's economic health: retail sales make up a fifth of GDP, pumping £18bn into government coffers, and there is no time to rebalance the economy away from consumer spending before Christmas.
(6) Besides, the coffers are not as full as they used to be.
(7) As a spokesperson I interviewed at the Danish centre-right thinktank Cepos put it, they effectively work until Thursday lunchtime for the state's coffers, and the other day and half for themselves.
(8) Ukraine has stopped paying pensions and other payments in the region after losing full control, and the Kremlin has little desire to fund east Ukraine from its own coffers.
(9) Kiir has accused government officials of plundering at least $4bn (£2.6bn) from state coffers over seven years.
(10) In addition, the chancellor claimed the move would "fundamentally reduce the incentive to engage in tax avoidance" by ensuring that avoiders are unable to benefit financially during the often protracted dispute process by sitting on money that should be in the taxman's coffers.
(11) Tax campaigners have questioned whether Starbucks will make a significant additional contribution to Treasury coffers after the coffee chain announced that it is moving its European head office from the Netherlands to the UK.
(12) It also wants to continue a privatisation programme set to bring in 15bn zlotys (£3bn) for state coffers in 2011 and to pursue closer ties with Poland's EU partners.
(13) They benefited from regional insecurity to draw support and weapons from Gaza to the east and a fast-disintegrating Libya to the west, but as Isis expanded both its profile and its coffers, the group’s commanders began exploring an alliance.
(14) The astronomical profits these companies and their cohorts continue to earn from digging up and burning fossil fuels cannot continue to haemorrhage into private coffers.
(15) He appealed for Athens's next cash injection – at €31.5bn not only one of the biggest but vital to keeping the liquidity-starved economy alive – to be made before public coffers dried up completely "by the end of November".
(16) Unite's executive will meet on Wednesday and is expected to cut the number of members it affiliates to Labour and, therefore, the amount it pumps into Labour coffers.
(17) There is a rape culture – a mindset that seems to have infected every aspect of our lives: the raping of the Earth through ecological destruction by the corporate powerful, pillaging resources for their own coffers with no concern for the Earth, or the indigenous peoples, or the notion of reciprocity; the rape of the poor through exploitation, land grabs, neglect; the rape of women's bodies through physical violence and commodification, where a girl can be purchased for less than the cost of a mobile phone.
(18) He insists that his fare deal can be funded through the "operating surplus" budget sitting in Transport for London's coffers – a claim flatly rejected both by the transport body and the incumbent mayor who is seeking re-election, who argues that every penny is accounted for and warned that any cut to fares would take money away from investment at a vital time for London's economic future.
(19) These numbers tell only a small part of the story, but they do help us imagine the scale of the value that flowed from the Americas and Africa into European coffers after 1492.
(20) The surplus takings will be poured back into the state coffers of a country in economic crisis and struggling to cut its debt.
Lacunar
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or having, lacunae; as, a lacunar circulation.
(n.) The ceiling or under surface of any part, especially when it consists of compartments, sunk or hollowed without spaces or bands between the panels.
(n.) One of the sunken panels in such a ceiling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lacunar infarcts were seen in 21% (37) of the patients with arterial infarcts.
(2) The transversalis fascia of the floor of the femoral canal turns down to form the medial wall of the venous compartment of the femoral sheath, and has the support of the curved edge of the lacunar ligament which effectively bars the femoral canal from entering the thigh.
(3) The eroded and now enlarged lacunar surfaces were lined by newly formed bone and osteoblasts.
(4) These two cases demonstrate that it is not necessary to postulate transient occlusion of the middle cerebral artery as an essential mechanism for progressive lacunar infarction.
(5) In a consecutive series of 515 first-ever strokes in a community-based study of stroke that combined prompt clinical assessment by a study neurologist with a high rate of confirmed pathologic diagnosis, 108 cases (21%) had a lacunar syndrome.
(6) The clinical efficacy and safety of cefixime (CFIX), a new oral cephalosporin, were compared with those of cefroxadine (CXD) in patients suffering from acute lacunar tonsillitis in a double blind study.
(7) Small, deep cerebral infarcts had many of the epidemiological characteristics of other cerebral infarcts but there was a slightly higher frequency of hypertension, significantly lower frequency of a cardiac embolic source, and significantly better survival in patients with lacunar infarction than in those with nonlacunar infarction.
(8) Clinical syndromes, caused by lacunar lesions located either in the supratentorial or in the infratentorial structures, such as pure motor hemiparesis and ataxic hemiparesis were also discussed.
(9) More striking signal abnormalities consisted of symmetrical areas of hyperintensity lateral to the posterior horns in two 24 year old patients and of extensive white matter damage with lacunar infarcts in a 59 year old woman.
(10) It has been recognized that small intracerebral hemorrhage not uncommonly produced lacunar syndromes.
(11) The shaking limb should be included in the group of lacunar syndromes.
(12) In every patient, computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging or both showed a lacunar infarct that was secondary to the occlusion of a terminal vessel affected by endarteritis and was most commonly associated with cysticerci in the suprasellar cistern.
(13) Twenty-two patients with clinical signs and symptoms compatible with lacunar transient ischemic attack or stroke of varying chronicity were evaluated with MR imaging.
(14) It was assumed that the observers, in their assessments of the scans, would somehow let their ratings of the likelihood of a lacunar infarction in or near the internal capsule be subject to the accompanying information.
(15) MRI was more sensitive than CT for detecting cerebral infarction, and T2-weighted spin echo pulse sequence was most sensitive in the diagnosis of cerebral infarction except some lacunar infarctions and some cortical and subcortical infarctions.
(16) Six forms of vascular dementia have been described: multi-infarct dementia, lacunar dementia, Binswanger's subcortical encephalopathy, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, white-matter lesions associated with dementias, and single-infarct dementia.
(17) Patients with lacunar infarction should therefore be evaluated for other causes of stroke that may be treatable.
(18) These results indicate that CCA blood flow may reflect brain function in patients with multiple lacunar infarctions.
(19) A case is presented, of a child aged 2.8 years with tumor-like formations in the parietal and the frontal bones, showing lacunar lesions on the radiography of the skull.
(20) The right ovary and the medulla of the left ovary failed to show the lacunar aspect characteristic in the ovo study.