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TREASURER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An officer charged with receiving and disbursing funds
Synonyms:
financial officer; treasurer
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("treasurer" is a kind of...):
money dealer; money handler (a person who receives or invests or pays out money)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "treasurer"):
bursar (the treasurer at a college or university)
chamberlain (the treasurer of a municipal corporation)
state treasurer (the treasurer for a state government)
Derivation:
treasurership (the position of treasurer)
Context examples:
The treasurer was of the same opinion: he showed to what straits his majesty’s revenue was reduced, by the charge of maintaining you, which would soon grow insupportable; that the secretary’s expedient of putting out your eyes, was so far from being a remedy against this evil, that it would probably increase it, as is manifest from the common practice of blinding some kind of fowls, after which they fed the faster, and grew sooner fat; that his sacred majesty and the council, who are your judges, were, in their own consciences, fully convinced of your guilt, which was a sufficient argument to condemn you to death, without the formal proofs required by the strict letter of the law.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
But I defy the treasurer, or his two informers (I will name them, and let them make the best of it) Clustril and Drunlo, to prove that any person ever came to me incognito, except the secretary Reldresal, who was sent by express command of his imperial majesty, as I have before related.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I should not have dwelt so long upon this particular, if it had not been a point wherein the reputation of a great lady is so nearly concerned, to say nothing of my own; though I then had the honour to be a nardac, which the treasurer himself is not; for all the world knows, that he is only a glumglum, a title inferior by one degree, as that of a marquis is to a duke in England; yet I allow he preceded me in right of his post.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
And your friend the secretary, humbly desiring to be heard again, in answer to what the treasurer had objected, concerning the great charge his majesty was at in maintaining you, said, that his excellency, who had the sole disposal of the emperor’s revenue, might easily provide against that evil, by gradually lessening your establishment; by which, for want of sufficient for you would grow weak and faint, and lose your appetite, and consequently, decay, and consume in a few months; neither would the stench of your carcass be then so dangerous, when it should become more than half diminished; and immediately upon your death five or six thousand of his majesty’s subjects might, in two or three days, cut your flesh from your bones, take it away by cart-loads, and bury it in distant parts, to prevent infection, leaving the skeleton as a monument of admiration to posterity.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
This lord, in conjunction with Flimnap the high-treasurer, whose enmity against you is notorious on account of his lady, Limtoc the general, Lalcon the chamberlain, and Balmuff the grand justiciary, have prepared articles of impeachment against you, for treason and other capital crimes.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
