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treasury

 noun
     
Related topics: Buildings
trea‧su‧ry plural treasuries
1PG

the Treasury (Department)

a government department that controls the money that the country collects and spends
2 [countable]TBB a place in a castle, church, palace etc where money or valuable objects are kept
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