#450 exchequer

exchequer- often in capitals in Britain, others... the accounting department of the Treasury, responsible for receiving and issuing funds

-C13 (in the sense of chessboard, counting table); from Old French eschequier, from eschec check

The Labour Party had a healthy exchequer, but it is now catastrophically debt ridden.

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