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# treasurer

noun (a treasurer, treasurers)

«treasurer» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

The person in a club, school council, charity or organisation who looks after the money, keeps records of what comes in and goes out, and reports on it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treasurer/#m1)

### In the lessons

In school councils and clubs, a pupil may be treasurer, counting money from cake sales and keeping accounts. In government, a Treasurer (Australia) or similar official is in charge of the country's money. In maths it links to adding income and subtracting spending. Phrases: «club treasurer», «elected treasurer».

### Examples

- Maya was elected treasurer of the school council. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treasurer/#x1)
- The treasurer counted the money from the cake sale. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treasurer/#x2)
- The treasurer said we had £85 left. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treasurer/#x3)
- Our club treasurer keeps a record of every payment. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treasurer/#x4)
- In Australia the Treasurer presents the national budget. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treasurer/#x5)
- The treasurer showed that we earned £120 and spent £75, leaving £45. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treasurer/#x6)
- And forthwith he ordered his grand treasurer, who was present, to send 10,000 gold pieces to Khacan for the purchase of the slave. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treasurer/#x7)

### Note

Countable. From «treasure». Other club jobs: chair (or president), secretary. In maths, a treasurer's balance = money in − money out.

## In Jewish tradition

An official who kept the king's treasure. Cyrus's treasurer handed back the Temple vessels to the Jews.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads the return of the Temple vessels as the fulfillment of the prophets' promise that the exiles would go home and rebuild.

### Examples

- even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah. (Writings EZR.1.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/treasurer/#x1)

### Note

Countable. From «treasure». Other club jobs: chair (or president), secretary. In maths, a treasurer's balance = money in − money out.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «treasurer» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/treasurer/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «treasurer» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/treasurer/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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