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Fiscal
//ˈfɪskəl// adj, name, noun
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.
"fiscal matters"
- 2 Pertaining to finance and money in general; financial. proscribed
- 3 Being a fiscal year.
"The allotment is $22 million less than the Pentagon spent on military bands in fiscal 1990."
Adjective
- 1 involving financial matters wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname from Spanish.
Noun
- 1 A public official in certain countries having control of public revenue.
"‘There I was interrogated by the Fiscal, who was making out a proces verbal […].’"
- 2 A public prosecutor (UK) or a district attorney (US). Philippines
- 3 Any of various African shrikes of the genus Lanius.
- 4 Procurator fiscal, a public prosecutor.
- 5 In certain countries, including Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and former colonies of these countries and certain British colonies, solicitor or attorney general.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle French fiscal, from Latin fiscus (“treasury”) – see fiscus and fisc.
Etymology 2
From Middle French fiscal, from Latin fiscus (“treasury”) – see fiscus and fisc.
Etymology 3
From Spanish fiscal, ultimately from Latin fiscus (“treasury”).
Etymology 4
After Afrikaans fiskaal (“public official, hangman”).
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