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n. A subordinate treasury, or place of deposit.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A branch of the United States treasury, established for convenience of receipt of public moneys under the independent treasury system, and placed in charge of an assistant treasurer of the United States.
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n. a subordinate treasury or place of deposit
Word Usage
"The subtreasury system rejected the last in any form, and as it was believed that no reliance could be placed on the issues of local institutions for the purposes of general circulation it necessarily and unavoidably adopted specie as the exclusive currency for its own use; and this must ever be the case unless one of the other kinds be used."