as in pocket
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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Recent Examples of coffers
Diane Brady, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Combined with waning federal funding, state and local governments will be looking for new and creative ways to refill their coffers.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 4 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
The Taliban was and still is adept at infiltrating aid organizations and diverting aid to fill their coffers.
—Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Villa ended the most recent quarter with roughly $12,000 in her campaign committee’s coffers, and this month alone has received more than $100,000 to her committee, according to records from the State Board of Elections.
—Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
With a terrific 29% drop, Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s The Bad Guys 2 added another $12M to its overseas coffers for an $83M running international cume in 68 markets.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2025
About 26% of the money spent to stabilize childcare actually ended up back in the government’s coffers through tax receipts.
—Alana Semuels, Time, 15 Aug. 2025
Currently, tech behemoths view privacy violations as a mere cost of doing business, with penalties akin to a parking violation relative to their bottomless coffers.
—Joel Thayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 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
Combined with waning federal funding, state and local governments will be looking for new and creative ways to refill their coffers.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 4 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
The Taliban was and still is adept at infiltrating aid organizations and diverting aid to fill their coffers.
—Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Villa ended the most recent quarter with roughly $12,000 in her campaign committee’s coffers, and this month alone has received more than $100,000 to her committee, according to records from the State Board of Elections.
—Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
With a terrific 29% drop, Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s The Bad Guys 2 added another $12M to its overseas coffers for an $83M running international cume in 68 markets.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 24 Aug. 2025
About 26% of the money spent to stabilize childcare actually ended up back in the government’s coffers through tax receipts.
—Alana Semuels, Time, 15 Aug. 2025
Currently, tech behemoths view privacy violations as a mere cost of doing business, with penalties akin to a parking violation relative to their bottomless coffers.
—Joel Thayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coffers
Noun
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In addition to the main compartment, the bag has two zippered pockets in front, a rear zipped pocket, and a mesh expansion that is designed to hold a water bottle, to-go coffee mug, umbrella, or sunglasses case.—
Rachel Trujillo,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Sep. 2025
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This decision lines the pockets of industry executives at the expense of the rest of us who enjoy public lands.—
Ryan Gellert,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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To them, bank lending has multiplicative qualities whereby Bank A rents $100,000 from a saver, lends out $90,000 to a borrower who then banks the money at Bank B, only for Bank B to lend out $81,000, only for the borrower to bank the $81,000 at Bank C that lends out $72,900.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The new method deposits ultra-thin tin oxide (SnO₂) ETLs at low temperatures, which prevents damage to the perovskite.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Aug. 2025
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Arguably the most impressive feature of the flagship Roomba s9+ is its self-cleaning reservoir, which deposits its entire contents into the Clean Base automatically.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Detectives, using video surveillance and department resources, identified the suspect as Armean Shirehjini, 41.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
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What parents and organizations can’t change, however, is the lack of funding and resources going into the public school system.—
IndyStar,
IndyStar,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The system runs simulations to predict where stress will build up in a 3D model, then reserves high-performance plastics for those regions.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Sep. 2025
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The airline reserves the right to refuse transportation to plus-size passengers who cannot be safely accommodated.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This nonprofit consortium includes contributors from JPL, the same lab that spawned the OCO instruments, as well as Planet Labs, the California Air Resources Board, universities, and private investment funds.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
6 Sep. 2025
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West Dundee will cover $450,000 of the $478,850 cost using money in its Spring Hill Mall Tax Increment Financing district fund.—
Gloria Casas,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Sep. 2025
Verb
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With its buzzy energy and sympathetic — if bumbling — criminals, Lumet withholds crucial information from the viewer until the final portion of the film.—
Christina Newland,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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While parents were fulfilling back-to-school shopping and educators were equipping classrooms with supplies out of their own pockets, the state that withholds money from CPS was holding a hearing to find out why the district is in financial trouble.—
Stacy Davis Gates,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Governance protects employee attention, retains trust and reinforces strategic communication.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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But hoping to dodge this defense, WB didn't argue that Midjourney retains copies of its images.—
Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Coffers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coffers. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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