treasuries
TREZH-er-eez/ˈtɹɛʒ.ɚ.iz/UKTREZH-uh-reez/ˈtɹɛʒ.ə.ɹiz/
- 1Plural of treasury.
When stocks fell, nervous investors moved their savings into treasuries.
Officials from several national treasuries met to discuss the growing debt crisis.
Note
In investment talk the plural is shorthand for treasury bonds, so investors who move into treasuries are buying government bonds, not entering a vault. Elsewhere it counts government finance departments, places where royal or state money is stored, and collections of art or writing, each a hoard of a different kind.
treasuries is a form of treasury
treasury, noun: A place where the money and valuables of a state or a monarch are kept. Full entry
- Forms
- treasurytreasuries plural
- Spelling
- treasury → treasuries: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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