The word "exchequer" is correct in written English
It is used to refer to a government department responsible for managing public revenue and finances, often in the context of the UK. Example: "The Chancellor of the Exchequer presented the annual budget to Parliament." Alternatives include "treasury" or "finance department."
Under his long stewardship, Luxembourg became Europe's wealthiest country, one of the richest in the world in per capita terms, as well as a bastion of banking secrecy and a tax haven for multinationals keen to exploit the EU's single market while minimising their contributions to the European exchequer.
Switzer introduced the former energy secretary and chancellor of the exchequer in the Thatcher government as one of the "most respected British political figures of recent decades" and referred throughout to "climate enthusiasts", without explaining what he meant.
Chancellor of the exchequer, 1979-83; foreign secretary, 1983-89; leader of the House of Commons, 1989-90 If you look at anything Margaret Thatcher wrote or the speeches she made before she became leader of the party, there's nothing outstanding or distinctive about them.
The Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, Vince Cable, told a disappointed Hay festival crowd today that he did not want to be chancellor of the exchequer under a Labour government, despite calling on Alistair Darling to step down.
His unlikely ally in this mission is his current hero, the chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne.
"Did you know that the chancellor of the exchequer is on this plane?" Well, I did now.
David Gauke, the exchequer secretary, said: "This case is another example of why taxpayers should not fall for the promises of promoters selling schemes that are all too often too good to be true.
As part of the agreement to guarantee £125m in annual lottery and exchequer funding for the elite funding body, UK Sport, athletes will be required to make themselves available for five days a year to visit schools.
Secretary of state for energy, 1981-83; chancellof of the exchequer, 1983-89 Margaret Thatcher was a womanly woman and always considered it important to use her woman's skills to the utmost.
Bonuses for people on the highest salaries were delayed until 2013-14 to avoid paying income tax at 50%, and the tax on those bonuses is now rolling into the exchequer, albeit at the lower rate of 45%.
The first came in 1958, when as financial secretary to the Treasury, he resigned with Peter (later Lord) Thorneycroft, the chancellor of the exchequer, and Nigel Birch, the economic secretary, in protest against the government's refusal to hold back public expenditure to a level acceptable to them - the episode which Harold Macmillan christened 'a little local difficulty'.
