(n.) One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table.
(n.) The department of state having charge of the collection and management of the royal revenue. [Eng.] Hence, the treasury; and, colloquially, pecuniary possessions in general; as, the company's exchequer is low.
(v. t.) To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The problem is that these revenues have been siphoned off to the London exchequer."
(2) Because pension incomes are taxable, and pensioners would have more to spend – generating indirect taxation – and the number of people on social security would be lower, the Exchequer would benefit by between £1.7bn and £3bn.
(3) It would make no difference if you were the chancellor of the exchequer handling an existential economic crisis.
(4) The exchequer will receive an extra £630m from the £2.5bn-a-year bank levy in 2011-12 and a further £590m by 2015-16.
(5) Public borrowing this year is projected to be £111bn, 7% of national income, and interest payments on the national debt will be a drain on the exchequer for years to come.
(6) In addition to outlining to ministers the list of parliamentary bills, George Osborne, the chancellor of the exchequer, also gave the cabinet an economic update, while the prime minister and home secretary outlined their determination to cut net migration to the tens of thousands.
(7) Whatever has happened to the chancellor of the exchequer?” he asked.
(8) In June the chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, announced that the 1% cap on pay rises would be extended for another four years at time when wages have begun to rise in real terms in other parts of the economy.
(9) Over 70p of every pound spent on tobacco goes to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yielding over 5 billion pounds.
(10) In the Sunday Telegraph, David Cameron said: "What I want is tax revenue from the banks into the exchequer, so we can help rebuild this economy."
(11) The chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, who unveiled Help to Buy in 2013's budget , welcomed the Bank's moves to cool the housing market.
(12) Umunna argued that the sum paid directly in corporation tax to the exchequer is the best reflection of a bank's contribution to the country.
(13) "The SNP is selective about when money has flowed into the exchequer.
(14) The select committee said it was told by Sir Simon Jenkins "that he could remember very well a certain chancellor of the exchequer, who shall be nameless, inquiring as to what his memoirs might be worth and the answer was: 'A quarter of a million tomorrow, £100,000 next week, £10,000 two months from now.
(15) The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said that, excluding the cost of interventions to support the financial sector, public sector net borrowing (PSNB) – the gap between the exchequer's tax take and its spending – stood at £163.4bn for the financial year just ended.
(16) "I contribute tens of millions of pounds [to the exchequer].
(17) In 2010 the Labour administration introduced a new top rate of 50% on income over £150,000, but the current chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, cut the rate to 45% in the 2012 budget.
(18) The plan, overseen by the Tory exchequer secretary, David Gauke, has provoked a backlash from privacy campaigners and tax professionals.
(19) ACC: I went straight into the civil service, into the exchequer and audit department, and came to London and worked first in Whitehall, at the old Board of Education, and then went to the Post Office, and then the war began and we were evacuated.
(20) Writing on the Guardian's website, shadow exchequer minister Owen Smith was sceptical, saying the anti-avoidance measures would be "a toothless tiger".
Remembrancer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, serves to bring to, or keep in, mind; a memento; a memorial; a reminder.
(n.) A term applied in England to several officers, having various functions, their duty originally being to bring certain matters to the attention of the proper persons at the proper time.
Example Sentences:
(1) He also held the post of Queen's remembrancer, created 860 years ago and the oldest judicial position continuously held by a judge.
(2) The remembrancer scours every piece of parliamentary legislation to ensure the corporation's interests remain unaffected.
(3) But the remembrancer also employs six in-house lawyers and has submitted evidence to 16 separate select committees in the past 18 months, including the Treasury's Tax Principles report published last year.
(4) Behind the Speaker’s chair in the House of Commons sits the Remembrancer , whose job is to ensure that the interests of the City of London are recognised by the elected members.
(5) Sitting facing the speaker's chair is Paul Double, a City of London official known as the remembrancer.
(6) (A campaign to rescind this privilege – Don’t Forget the Remembrancer – will be launched very soon.)
(7) The Occupy activists have a good deal of fun with the "Remembrancer", a legal official from the corporation who represents the City's interests in the House of Commons and gets to sit behind the speaker's chair – a prime example, according to Occupy, of the overly close embrace of politics and big business.
(8) I was talking with Nick Harkaway [author of Tigerman ] in his back garden a couple of years ago and he started explaining how the guilds of the City work.” In particular, Harkaway told him about the unelected offices of the Lord Mayor and the City Remembrancer, who can be mistaken for figureheads but, in fact, have extensive powers.