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as in pocket
coffers plural
available money
let me see what's in the household coffers and I'll get back to you about making a donation
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as in to deposit
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Recent Examples of coffer
Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 12 July 2025
Think of the tax revenue which could end up in state and city coffers around this time of year, New Year’s Eve, and other state, national and international dates.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2025
Diane Brady, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Roughly $460,000 is returning to city coffers after officials became aware in July someone was impersonating Scherrer Construction, a company involved in the $38 million revamp of the public library on North King Drive.
—David Clarey, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Mamdani has focused his campaign on populist messaging, emphasized door-to-door ground outreach and built up his campaign coffers with small dollar donations.
—Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 12 July 2025
Think of the tax revenue which could end up in state and city coffers around this time of year, New Year’s Eve, and other state, national and international dates.
—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2025
Verb
And higher rates may be the price that everyone has to pay amid tax cuts and tariffs – the latter of which may harm consumers but do give a short-term boost to government coffers.
—Diane Brady, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Roughly $460,000 is returning to city coffers after officials became aware in July someone was impersonating Scherrer Construction, a company involved in the $38 million revamp of the public library on North King Drive.
—David Clarey, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coffer
Noun
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The vault-like room with its large steel access doors held all of the recovered pieces—about 40 percent of the total orbiter—and was a departure from what NASA had done after its previous spaceflight disasters.—
Robert Pearlman,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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Faulí showed me where Gaudí had begun building a traditional Gothic rib to support the vault.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Television is in our pockets now, sliced into fragments, replayed without context.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Children are remarkably adept at detecting when adults are partially present, their attention split between conversation and the notification pings in their pockets.—
Jessica Ewing
September 15,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Think of it as one fund, and whatever money everyone deposits into this goes into the investment of the casino.—
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
10 Sep. 2025
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The commission found the drop box acceptable as officials properly secured the box to the ground throughout its use and there were no allegations that ballots deposited in the drop box were not properly accounted for and processed on Election Day.—
Anna Kleiber,
jsonline.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Buffs have been made to various maps in terms of monster density, chests, number of rare and magic monsters, essences, strongboxes, shrines and all of this is without specific Waystone or Tower modifiers.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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Another artifact reflecting the sharp divides between rich and poor is an elaborate 800-pound steel strongbox that would have been used to store money—a great deal of it—in the home.—
Teresa Nowakowski,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 Nov. 2023
Noun
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After The Bee profiled Black artist Gary Harrell in 2023, Chiu provided funds so the Crocker could acquire four pieces from Harrell.—
Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Short-term Treasuries respond immediately; money market funds and 3-month bills move almost in lockstep.—
Robert Daugherty,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Whether the Blackhawks would have fared any better since then with experienced coaches is debatable, but general manager Kyle Davidson is banking on Blashill to take a promising young group of players to the next level and eventually turn the corner in the organization’s rebuild phase.—
Jonas Siegel,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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Korean researchers have unlocked a new way to bank clean energy and turn it back into power on demand.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Bond yields are shaped in part by expectations of the benchmark interest rate set by the Fed, some experts said.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
13 Sep. 2025
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The three-part experiential Club Supper event included a dinner at Saga, a jazz performance by the Max Roach Estate Quintet, and a comedy set by Donnell Rawlings.—
Kristen Tauer,
Footwear News,
13 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The brothers are suspected of having reserved thousands of tee times for resale at numerous golf courses nationwide, including at least 17 different public courses across Southern California.—
City News Service,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
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In Bezos’ imagined future, Earth is reserved for living and vacationing, perhaps preserved indefinitely as a national park.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Coffer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coffer. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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