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 more money that flows into the coffers of our advertisement department the better our paper can be made, the wider its circulation becomes, the further its influence reaches.
The regions are also free to choose whether the revenue for the choice patients should go directly to the local health enterprise (the hospital) or to the regional coffers.
Coffered ceilings were panelled in square, hexagonal or octagonal coffers which had sunken borders enriched with egg and dart or water leaf mouldings and had a central rosette.
More generally, consider the myriad individuals who anonymously fill congregation plates and church coffers every day.
Policy-makers were enticed by socio-economic benefits and filling the crown coffers, but projectors expected to profit by serving the public good.
Much to the chagrin of the service, these revenues accrued largely to central coffers.
Far from delivering priority goods and services efficiently, most have been shambling giants draining funds out of national coffers.
The exercise of restraint in spending public monies is a guarantee for filling the coffers of the treasury.
