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noun
1.
a box or chest, especially one for valuables.
2.
coffers, a treasury; funds: The coffers of the organization were rapidly filled by the contributions.
3.
any of various boxlike enclosures, as a cofferdam.
verb (used with object)
5.
to deposit or lay up in or as in a coffer or chest.
6.
to ornament with coffers or sunken panels.
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Coffer
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cof·fer·like, adjective
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- The fund for stimulus is nothing but the recollected money being held at the government's coffer.
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| coffer (ˈkɒfə) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a chest, esp for storing valuables |
| 2. | (usually plural) a store of money |
| 3. | caisson, Also called: lacuna an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling, dome, etc |
| 4. | a watertight box or chamber |
| 5. | a. short for cofferdam |
| b. a recessed panel in a concrete, metal, or timber soffit | |
| —vb | |
| 6. | to store, as in a coffer |
| 7. | to decorate (a ceiling, dome, etc) with coffers |
| [C13: from Old French coffre, from Latin cophinus basket, from Greek kophinos] | |
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Word Origin & History
coffer
mid-13c., from O.Fr. cofre "a chest," from L. cophinus "basket" (see coffin).
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Coffer definition
the receptacle or small box placed beside the ark by the Philistines, in which they deposited the golden mice and the emerods as their trespass-offering (1 Sam. 6:8, 11, 15).
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