(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.
Trench
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
(v. t.) To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench.
(v. t.) To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it.
(v. t.) To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops.
(v. i.) To encroach; to intrench.
(v. i.) To have direction; to aim or tend.
(v. t.) A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land.
(v. t.) An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like.
(v. t.) An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its boot always held a bivouac bag, a trenching tool of some sort and a towel and trunks, in case he passed somewhere interesting to sleep, dig, or swim.
(2) The RSC’s Erica Whyman stages a story inspired by a local man, the Royal Warwickshire Regiment’s Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, who was known as the cartoonist of the trenches and survived the war to work at the original Shakespeare Memorial theatre.
(3) Stephen Fisher, one of the archaeologists recording the site, says digging the trenches would also have been training for the men, who would soon have to do it for real, and the little slit trenches scattered across the site, just big enough for one man to cower in, might represent their first efforts.
(4) Upon segregation of the conidium from the phialide cell by conidial wall formation, 'trench-like' invaginations gradually appeared in the plasma membrane and a disorganized rodlet pattern was formed on the outer surface of the maturing conidial wall.
(5) The field was taped off while a mechanical digger clawed at the ground, making parallel trenches in the sandy earth.
(6) Scores of archaeologists working in a waterlogged trench through the wettest summer and coldest winter in living memory have recovered more than 10,000 objects from Roman London , including writing tablets, amber, a well with ritual deposits of pewter, coins and cow skulls, thousands of pieces of pottery, a unique piece of padded and stitched leather – and the largest collection of lucky charms in the shape of phalluses ever found on a single site.
(7) He sees HS2 as a "huge trench across the country where we can learn an awful lot about new sites.
(8) But his attitude gradually hardened, particularly after he reached the trenches.
(9) "It looks solid," said Jean Pascal Zanders, a Belgian expert who runs a blog on chemical weapons called The Trench .
(10) What they learn can be summed up in one word: trenches.
(11) The archaeologists had to wear slippers to preserve the site which, at the bottom of a two-metre trench, picked up much damp.
(12) A variety of cold exposure injuries were discussed, including frostnip, chilblains, trench foot, frostbite, and hypothermia.
(13) Alan Trench, an academic specialising in devolution and adviser to expert government commissions, said: "It's clear that Labour voters generally have concerns about how things are at the moment.
(14) But if trapped deep inside wreckage or an underwater trench, the effectiveness can be hindered.
(15) French troops wearing an early form of gas mask in the trenches during the second Battle of Ypres in 1915.
(16) Keeping within the string lines of your footprint, dig a trench about 15cm deep and lay the foundation stones flat and level.
(17) But according to Wayne Cocroft, an English Heritage expert on wartime archaeology, although 20 other trench training sites have been recorded across Britain, many have been damaged by later development, and both the scale and the state of preservation of the Gosport complex is exceptional.
(18) Working in a location to the southeast of Kathmandu, Paul Tapponnier, an earth scientist at the Earth Observatory of Singapore , and his team dug trenches across the fault and used charcoal to date when it had moved.
(19) There are no trenches, barbed wire fences or tank traps.
(20) Accessory glandular tissues were atrophied and debris filled the trenches of the papillae.