treasury tag

English

treasury tags

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɛʒəɹi ˈtæɡ/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

treasury tag (plural treasury tags)

1. A short piece of cord with metal bars at each end, used in offices for holding papers together or fastening them into a file.
   • 1990, Martin Booth, Dreaming of Samarkand, Morrow:

     From within he took several sheets of paper tied together with a green treasury tag.

   • 2014, Boris Johnson, The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History, Hodder & Stoughton:

     He had an aversion to staples and paper clips and therefore preferred documents to be joined by a treasury tag, or, as he put it, ‘klopped’.

Synonyms

• India tag

Translations

paper fastener

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: paperin kiinnitysnaru (no exact translation exists)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• treasury tag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia