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coffer

noun as in large box

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In Heidi Sipe’s view, local agencies like hers are now competing with one another to tap the city’s coffers and reap the full benefits of the boom.

Since late summer, the Treasury has been rebuilding its coffers by issuing record sums of short-term debt.

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To raise the funds needed to refill France’s coffers, the king sought to levy taxes.

They act as deep coffers for the inset skylights, recalling Kahn’s Yale museum, while their V-shaped section gives them a central channel in which the mechanical systems are concealed, performing their duties unseen.

He appealed to voters to leave the “cockroach risk” behind, referring to the Peronist movement and the vested interests that emptied government coffers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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