Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A branch of the United States treasury, established for convenience of receipt of public moneys under the independent treasury system, and placed in charge of an assistant treasurer of the United States.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun United States A subordinate treasury, or place of deposit.

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  • noun A subordinate treasury, or place of deposit.

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  • noun a subordinate treasury or place of deposit

Etymologies

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sub- +‎ treasury

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Examples

  • The subtreasury system rejected the last in any form, and as it was believed that no reliance could be placed on the issues of local institutions for the purposes of general circulation it necessarily and unavoidably adopted specie as the exclusive currency for its own use; and this must ever be the case unless one of the other kinds be used.

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

  • The question of the continuance of the subtreasury system is respectfully submitted to the wisdom of Congress.

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

  • Heading these were the monetary planks: "a national currency, safe, sound, and flexible, issued by the general Government poly, a full legal tender for all debts," with the subtreasury system of loans "or a better system; free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of sixteen to one"; and an increase in the circulating medium until there should be not less than $50 per capita.

    The Agrarian Crusade; a chronicle of the farmer in politics 1923

  • In case they did not the papers would doubtless be destroyed -- and the charges would continue to be made -- the charges that the subtreasury in New York had shipped the gold to aid the revolutionary junta in making a republic of China.

    Boy Scouts in a Submarine : or, Searching an Ocean Floor 1909

  • The United States Bank, of which Nicholas Biddle was the progenitor, had gone completely in 1841, and the United States Treasury with its subtreasury system had come in 1846; but still there were many, many wildcat banks, sufficient in number to make the average exchange-counter broker a walking encyclopedia of solvent and insolvent institutions.

    The Financier, a novel Theodore Dreiser 1908

  • National Provisions Company, and went out preaching fiat money and a subtreasury for the farmers 'crops, trusting to God and the flower garden about his little white house, to keep the family alive -- it is odd that Jeanette's childish impression was that General Ward was a man of consequence in the world.

    A Certain Rich Man William Allen White 1906

  • While the Whig and Democratic parties differed in regard to a bank, the tariff distribution, the specie circular, and the subtreasury, they agreed on the great slavery question which now agitates the Union.

    In the First Debate with Lincoln 1906

  • After the oath of office had been administered (on the spot where now stands the statue of Washington in front of the subtreasury building), Washington and the other officials withdrew to the Senate-chamber in Federal Hall, where he delivered this address.

    II. His First Inaugural Address 1906

  • We'll pool issue, and say, we'll make those Federal Oil pikers think we've gnawed a corner off the subtreasury.

    The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • While the Whig and Democratic parties differed in regard to a bank, the tariff, distribution, the specie circular and the subtreasury, they agreed on the great slavery question which now agitates the Union.

    First Joint Debate at Ottawa. Mr. Douglas's Speech 1897

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