Noun
a treasury for government funds
Source: WordNetProsperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury. Herbert Hoover
IV. Every tax ought to be contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state. Adam Smith
Any prosperity policy is a delusion and a path to ruin. There is no economic lesson which the people of the United States need to take to heart more than that. In the second place the Spanish mistakes arose, in part, from confusing the public treasury with the national wealth. William Graham Sumner
“As Attorney General, I stand committed with my federal counterparts to punish those who plunder the public treasury and betray the at-risk youth they were entrusted to serve.” Source: Internet
He, however, called on the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), other labour unions and prominent Civil Society Organisations to speak up against what he described called looting of public treasury in the country. Source: Internet
But ruling politicians in Belize routinely steal from the public treasury and misappropriate public assets, and their colleagues consent to those crimes by their silence, their conspiracy of silence. Source: Internet