exchequer
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1. exchequer - Noun
2. exchequer - Verb
3. Exchequer - Proper noun
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One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table.
The department of state having charge of the collection and management of the royal revenue. [Eng.] Hence, the treasury; and, colloquially, pecuniary possessions in general; as, the company's exchequer is low.
To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer.
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Further, it stated: “Interestingly, an amount of Rs 16.91 crore was paid to such institutions against which the audit team had recommended a recovery of Rs 8 crore, thus costing the state exchequer Rs 24.91 crore.
At an administrative meeting in Kakdwip in South 24 Parganas district, Banerjee said she will not back any bandh, as it causes trouble for people and loss to the exchequer.
At the current market price, a 15 per cent stake sale would fetch about ₹580 crore to the exchequer.
Documents of the exchequer show him sending letters threatening officials if they did not pay money.
After Smith published his first major treatise in 1759, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Charles Townshend, the future chancellor of the exchequer, hired him to tour Europe while tutoring his new stepson.
He was also instrumental in brokering peace between the Centre and the Reserve Bank of India () that resulted in the smooth transfer of Rs 1.76 lakh crore of the central bank’s surplus to the exchequer last year, they said.