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United States Treasury   /junˈaɪtəd steɪts trˈɛʒəri/   Listen
United States Treasury

noun
1.
The federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789.  Synonyms: Department of the Treasury, Treasury, Treasury Department.





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... they were, variant and depreciated since the panic of 1857, they were the money of the people when the Civil War began. Before the end of 1861 the banks gave up the pretense of redeeming their notes in coin. The United States Treasury suspended the payment of specie early in 1862, and thereafter for seventeen years the paper money in circulation depended for its value on the hope that it would ...
— The New Nation • Frederic L. Paxson


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