exchequers
Meaning of exchequers
- a royal or national treasury.
an important source of revenue to the sultan's exchequer
Middle English: from Old French eschequier, from medieval Latin scaccarium ‘chessboard’, from scaccus (see check1). The original sense was ‘chessboard’. Current senses derive from the Norman department of state dealing with the royal revenues, named Exchequer from the chequered tablecloth on which accounts were kept by means of counters. The spelling was influenced by Latin ex- ‘out’ (see ex1). Compare with chequer.
Information about exchequers
- It is a name.
- The singular form of exchequers is: exchequer.
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Hyphenation of exchequers
ex-che-quers
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- exchequers is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Words that rhyme with exchequers
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