Definition of Fiscal

1. Adjective. Involving financial matters. "Fiscal responsibility"

Exact synonyms: Financial
Partainyms: Finance, Finance
Derivative terms: Finance, Finance, Finance, Fisc
Antonyms: Nonfinancial

Definition of Fiscal

1. a. Pertaining to the public treasury or revenue.

2. n. The income of a prince or a state; revenue; exhequer.

Definition of Fiscal

1. Adjective. Related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue. ¹

2. Adjective. (proscribed) Pertaining to finance and money in general; financial. ¹

3. Noun. A public official in certain countries having control of public revenue. ¹

4. Noun. (British Scottish law) Procurator fiscal, a public prosecutor. ¹

5. Noun. (legal) In certain countries, including Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and former colonies of these countries and certain British colonies, solicitor or attorney general. ¹

6. Noun. Any of various African shrikes of the genus ''Lanius''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fiscal

1. a public prosecutor [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fiscal

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firststringer
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firth
firths
firtle
firy
fisbo
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fiscal (current term)
fiscal conservative
fiscal conservatives
fiscal policy
fiscal year
fiscal years
fiscalamities
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fiscalist
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fiscally
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fischerindole

Literary usage of Fiscal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin by United States (1918)
"June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, the sum of $34000; for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty, the sum of $24000; ..."

2. Bulletin by Federal Board for Vocational Education, United States (1917)
"twenty-three, nor less than $10.000 for any fiscal year thereafter, and there is hereby appropriated the following sums, or so much thereof as may be ..."

3. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1902)
"Statement of receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year [ending the first Monday in March] 1843-45. ntp V, Title changes to : Expenditures of the town ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"128), entitled "An Act Making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Service of the Government for the fiscal Year Ending June Thirtieth, ..."

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