exchequer
Meaning of exchequer
- a royal or national treasury.
an important source of revenue to the sultan's exchequer
Middle English: from Old French eschequier, from medieval Latin scaccarium ‘chessboard’, from scaccus (see check1). The original sense was ‘chessboard’. Current senses derive from the Norman department of state dealing with the royal revenues, named Exchequer from the chequered tablecloth on which accounts were kept by means of counters. The spelling was influenced by Latin ex- ‘out’ (see ex1). Compare with chequer.
Information about exchequer
- It is a name.
- The plural form of exchequer is: exchequers.
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Hyphenation of exchequer
ex-che-quer
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- exchequer is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
exchequer synonyms
Meaning treasury:
Words that rhyme with exchequer
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