0 a large, strong box in which money or valuable objects are kept
government/party coffers
1 a large strong box in which money or valuable objects are kept
2 the money that an organization has in its bank accounts and available to spend:
The legate or delegate would operate the police as a self-sufficient unit, with funds available from the central coffers in cases only of extreme need.
The clergy, however, had already contributed handsomely to royal coffers before the crisis of the 1290s.
Neither trading conglomerate held the monopoly in the region, and profits from trade, kick-backs, and tariffs could flow in viceroyal coffers from either side.
They made any "foreign" journeyman contribute handsomely to his new confraternity's coffers.
With increased sales in all types of alcohol, revenues could serve both local and central government coffers.
All but one of the coffers on the inside of this arch are the same.
First, people must know what their taxes have financed, instead of watching them go down the 'black hole' of the government coffers.
The exercise of restraint in spending public monies is a guarantee for filling the coffers of the treasury.
