Definition of exchequer Exchequer

/ɛˈksʧɛˌkɚ/ - [ekscheker] - Ex•cheq•uer

We found 8 definitions of exchequer from 5 different sources.

What does exchequer mean?

Noun
exchequer - the funds of a government or institution or individual
		treasury
		cash in hand, finances, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource assets in the form of money
		public treasury, till, trough a treasury for government funds
		bursary the treasury of a public institution or religious order
		subtreasury a subordinate treasury or place of deposit

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exchequer (Noun)
A treasury.
exchequer (Noun)
An available fund of money, especially one for a specific purpose.

exchequer (n.)
One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table.
exchequer (n.)
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.
exchequer (v. t.)
To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer.

exchequer
eks-chek′ėr, n. a superior court which had formerly to do only with the revenue, but now also with common law, so named from the chequered cloth which formerly covered the table, and on which the accounts were reckoned.—v.t. to proceed against a person in the Court of Exchequer.—Exchequer bill, bill issued at the Exchequer, under the authority of acts of parliament, as security for money advanced to the government.—Chancellor of the Exchequer (see Chancellor); Court of Exchequer, originally a revenue court, became a division of the High Court of Justice in 1875, and is now merged in the Queen's Bench Division. [From root of check, checker.]