Definition of "coffers" []

• Plural form of coffer. (noun)

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• "And as if that were not bad enough, he pays them compensation out of what he calls the coffers of Rebecca."
• "When all the financial world was clamoring for money and perishing through lack of it, the first of each month many thousands of dollars poured into his coffers from the water-rates, and each day ten thousand dollars, in dime and nickels, came in from his street railways and ferries."
• "Closed-door discussions about which technologies in the clean tech landscape get how much from our government coffers is the modus operandi for the fits-and-starts approach we seem to have in building any sort of energy and economic platform that de-toxes us off our addiction to extracted energy."