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  • noun Plural form of coffer.

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Examples

  • And as if that were not bad enough, he pays them compensation out of what he calls the coffers of Rebecca.

    Truly Balogh, Mary 1996

  • Closed-door discussions about which technologies in the clean tech landscape get how much from our government coffers is the modus operandi for the fits-and-starts approach we seem to have in building any sort of energy and economic platform that de-toxes us off our addiction to extracted energy.

    Alison Wise: The Clean Economist: Clean "Corruption" Alison Wise 2010

  • Closed-door discussions about which technologies in the clean tech landscape get how much from our government coffers is the modus operandi for the fits-and-starts approach we seem to have in building any sort of energy and economic platform that de-toxes us off our addiction to extracted energy.

    Alison Wise: The Clean Economist: Clean "Corruption" Alison Wise 2010

  • Closed-door discussions about which technologies in the clean tech landscape get how much from our government coffers is the modus operandi for the fits-and-starts approach we seem to have in building any sort of energy and economic platform that de-toxes us off our addiction to extracted energy.

    Alison Wise: The Clean Economist: Clean "Corruption" Alison Wise 2010

  • But officials say what may not be great for city coffers is good news for the environment.

    Lori's A.M. Buzz: Md.'s first casino opens Monday Washington Post editors 2010

  • Closed-door discussions about which technologies in the clean tech landscape get how much from our government coffers is the modus operandi for the fits-and-starts approach we seem to have in building any sort of energy and economic platform that de-toxes us off our addiction to extracted energy.

    Alison Wise: The Clean Economist: Clean "Corruption" Alison Wise 2010

  • When all the financial world was clamoring for money and perishing through lack of it, the first of each month many thousands of dollars poured into his coffers from the water-rates, and each day ten thousand dollars, in dime and nickels, came in from his street railways and ferries.

    Chapter XX 2010

  • Refilling those coffers is the subject of a FDIC board meeting today in Washington.

    Financial Dispatch: Consumers less confident 2009

  • Closed-door discussions about which technologies in the clean tech landscape get how much from our government coffers is the modus operandi for the fits-and-starts approach we seem to have in building any sort of energy and economic platform that de-toxes us off our addiction to extracted energy.

    Alison Wise: The Clean Economist: Clean "Corruption" Alison Wise 2010

  • Any and ALL Republican resolutions to stem the hundreds of millions of dollars that Big Oil, Big Pharma and huge Defense sub-contrators pour into the Republican re-election coffers is doomed to utter and complete failure.

    RNC resolution won't 'handcuff' Steele, co-sponsor says 2009

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