Treasurer Definition

trĕzhər-ər
noun
A person in charge of a treasure or treasury; specif., an officer in charge of the funds or finances, as of a government, corporation, or society.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
treasurer
Plural:
treasurers

Origin of Treasurer

  • Middle English tresurer from Anglo-Norman tresorer from Late Latin thēsaurārius from Latin of treasure from thēsaurus treasure treasure

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Anglo-Norman tresorer, from tresor + -er

    From Wiktionary

Treasurer Sentence Examples

  • The county treasurer is elected by the assistant judges.

  • Then he ordered his treasurer to pay the poet five hundred pieces of gold; for, indeed, the poem which he had recited was wonderfully fine.

  • On the 19th of June, on the resignation of Lord Clifford, he was appointed lord treasurer and made Baron Osborne of Kiveton and Viscount Latimer in the peerage of England, while on the 27th of June 1674 he was created earl of Danby, when he surrendered his Scottish peerage of Osborne to his second son Peregrine Osborne.

  • Charles is said to have told him when he made him treasurer that he had only two friends in the world, himself and his own merit.

  • The executive department consists of a governor, lieutenant-governor, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer and attorney-general.

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Words Starting With

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