treasury

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A place in which treasure is kept.
• noun A place in which private or public funds are received, kept, managed, and disbursed.
• noun Such funds or revenues.
• noun A collection of literary or artistic treasures.
• noun The department of a government in charge of the collection, management, and expenditure of the public revenue.
• noun A debt security, such as a bond, issued by the US Treasury.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A house, room, or chest where treasure is laid up.
• noun Figuratively, that wherein something precious is stored or secured; a repository.
• noun Specifically, a place where the public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government; also, a place where the funds of an incorporated company or private society are deposited and disbursed.
• noun A department of government which has control over the collection, management, and expenditure of the public revenue. See Department of the Treasury, under department.
• noun The officers of the British treasury department.
• noun A name given to a class of subterranean monuments consisting usually of a solid structure of masonry, of domical form, often with pseudo-vaulting in horizontal courses, either wholly underground or covered with a tumulus.
• noun Treasure.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A place or building in which stores of wealth are deposited; especially, a place where public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government; hence, also, the place of deposit and disbursement of any collected funds.
• noun That department of a government which has charge of the finances.
• noun A repository of abundance; a storehouse.
• noun Hence, a book or work containing much valuable knowledge, wisdom, wit, or the like; a thesaurus.”
• noun obsolete A treasure.
• noun [Eng.] the board to which is intrusted the management of all matters relating to the sovereign's civil list or other revenues.
• noun [Eng.] the first row of seats on the right hand of the Speaker in the House of Commons; -- so called because occupied by the first lord of the treasury and chief minister of the crown.
• noun [Eng.] See Lord high treasurer of England, under Treasurer.
• noun (U. S. Finance) a circulating note or bill issued by government authority from the Treasury Department, and receivable in payment of dues to the government.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun a place where treasure is stored safely
• noun a place where state or royal money and valuables are stored
• noun a collection or artistic or literary works

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun negotiable debt obligations of the United States government which guarantees that interest and principal payments will be paid on time
• noun the funds of a government or institution or individual
• noun the government department responsible for collecting and managing and spending public revenues
• noun the British cabinet minister responsible for economic strategy
• noun a depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely
• noun the federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789