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- noun the federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789
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Examples
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A former Skycom employee who worked in the treasury department in Tehran said reports were sent daily to the company's headquarters in China, which "was the exact same as Huawei's in China."
Huawei to Scale Back Business in Iran Loretta Chao 2011
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The line in Washington is that if you want to talk to someone from Goldman Sachs, call the treasury department.
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He said he was acting at the request of unnamed officials over at the treasury department.
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The treasury department is saying that it was at behest of their concerns but you're staff did do this.
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Senator Chris Dodd, you just saw him live here in THE SITUATION ROOM, says he was involved at the request, he says, of officials over at the treasury department.
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To heck with turning it over to the treasury department.
The bailout revolt 2008
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Well, the treasury department can start buying up all that bad debt to try and help you and me, everyone else, trying to get money, trying to just keep the family afloat right now, when it comes to your home, your mortgages, your paycheck, filling up the gas tank.
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An official with the treasury department, which leads the Committee on Foreign Investment, would only describe the situation as fluid.
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Mr. Sherman was the principal advocate of the resumption bill in the Senate, and during the two critical years preceding the day for coin payment he was at the head of the treasury department.
Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman
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States the term is used of certain subdivisions of the executive departments, as the bureau of statistics, a division of the treasury department.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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