🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

财政部

Pronunciation / Transliteration: cái zhèng bù

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Treasury Department/ˈtrɛʒ.ər.i dɪˈpɑːrt.mənt/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"财政部负责管理国家的公共财政和税收。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The government department responsible for managing a country's finances, taxation, public revenue, and the issuance of currency.

    "The Treasury Department announced new monetary policies to help stabilize the national economy."
  2. 2

    In the United States, the executive department of the federal government established in 1789 to manage government revenue.

    "He was appointed as the senior advisor to the United States Treasury Department."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'treasury', originating from the Greek 'thesauros' meaning storehouse or treasure, via Latin and Old French, with 'department', derived from the Latin 'departire' meaning to divide. Historically evolving in the 18th and 19th centuries, it came to designate the specific executive government department responsible for managing a nation's revenue, finances, and currency.

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