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Cofferer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who keeps treasures in a coffer.

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.

Treasure


Definition:

  • (n.) Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve.
  • (n.) A great quantity of anything collected for future use; abundance; plenty.
  • (n.) That which is very much valued.
  • (v. t.) To collect and deposit, as money or other valuable things, for future use; to lay up; to hoard; usually with up; as, to treasure up gold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is a tragedy that he abandoned Iraq, sacrificing the gains secured by American blood and treasure.
  • (2) Nicholas Shaxson – the author of Treasure Islands, a book about the world of tax evasion – described the demands as "incredibly powerful".
  • (3) After a brief review of the range of monitoring accessories, the author considers the problem of their hospital standardization (various needs of the different hospital units, diversity of the monitors, existence of central purchasing departments, pressure from the treasurer's office).
  • (4) The previous day in the Commons, Miliband had accused former Conservative party treasurer Lord Fink of tax avoidance and talked about “dodgy” donors.
  • (5) The treasurer, Joe Hockey, defended the government's planned changes to higher education during an appearance on the ABC's Q&A program on Monday night.
  • (6) That he was able to keep his secret treasures here, not in some remote corner of the globe but in the centre of the city that gave birth to the National Socialist movement, is both extraordinary and not short of a certain dark irony.
  • (7) The New South Wales and South Australian premiers have joined forces to tell treasurer Scott Morrison that finding extra federal funding to head off a looming hospitals and schools funding “cliff” is a “non negotiable” condition of their support for increasing the GST.
  • (8) It’s especially not appropriate for a citizen seeking election to this house or selection to the ministry canvassing for money and support to seek to damage individuals’ reputation by commencing court actions for what could only be an improper purpose.” Palmer said the former treasurer, Joe Hockey, had been staying at the resort at the time and “walked past the table” where they were sitting and “merely sat down to have a coffee”.
  • (9) Frankly, it is rather a shame that he does not fall under the Treasure Act (to do so he would have to be over 300 years old and be composed of more than 10% gold or silver).
  • (10) Darth Vader is no match for Treasure Island, Guardian 19 November 1983 In the early years, Stevenson did not consider Treasure Island one of his great achievements, perhaps because he did not have to work hard over it.
  • (11) A treasure trove of more than £1.7bn-worth of old masters paintings, Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities, ancient weapons and prehistoric archaeological items were allowed to be sold overseas in the year to May 2013, according to official statistics issued by the government .
  • (12) Turning on the community suggests they are spooked by the growing support to protect our national treasures.
  • (13) Treasurer Wayne Swan says largely because we have a fixed price in Australia's carbon pricing scheme to allow certainty for businesses having to make the transition.
  • (14) It is reluctantly forced to strip the UK of its treasured AAA rating when the government's growth forecasts have faced repeated downgrades and the upturn is out of sight.
  • (15) But if the coalition does keep together for four more years, then that's four more years of Lib Dem withering and four more years to gather a treasure chest to reward Tory voters.
  • (16) "The [Inupiat] people who have thrived off the Arctic waters for thousands of years and those who treasure the Arctic's unique wildlife will continue to demand that the Obama administration not allow Shell to move forward."
  • (17) The Treasurer Joe Hockey walks to a doorstop interview with the media this morning at the Ministerial entrance to Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday 13th May 2013 Photograph: Mike Bowers, Guardian Australia There is a certain commonality associated with the annual rituals of the treasurer.
  • (18) Ambling along Long Beach, south of Tofino, exploring treasures in tidal pools can easily absorb days.
  • (19) Your commitment, passion and, crucially, skills will be treasured elsewhere.
  • (20) Back when he was a professor of economics at Australian National University, Andrew Leigh (now the federal shadow assistant treasurer) co-authored a study that found Chinese applicants must submit 68% more applications to get an interview than those with Anglo-Saxon names.

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