Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to government expenditures, revenues, and debt: a fiscal policy of incurring budget deficits to stimulate a weak economy.
- adj. Of or relating to finance or finances.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to the public treasury or revenue; relating to or concerned with the collection and expenditure of taxes and customs; pertaining to the financial operations of a government.
- Hence Of or pertaining to financial matters in general: as, a, fiscal agent.
- n. Revenue; the income of a sovereign or state.
- n. In some countries, a treasurer or minister of finance.
- n. In Spain and Portugal, the king's solicitor or attorney-general.
- n. A public prosecutor. In Scotland he is also called procurator-fiscal. In the Dutch colonies in America the officer who acted as sheriff and public prosecutor and carried out the customs regulations of the Dutch West India Company was called a fiscal, or schout fiscael (fiscal sheriff).
- n. An African shrike, as Lanius or Fiscus collaris.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of various African shrikes of the genus Lanius.
- adj. Related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.
- adj. proscribed Pertaining to finance and money in general; financial.
- n. A public official in certain countries having control of public revenue.
- n. UK, Scottish law Procurator fiscal, a public prosecutor.
- n. law In certain countries, including Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and former colonies of these countries and certain British colonies, solicitor or attorney general.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pertaining to the public treasury or revenue.
- n. obsolete The income of a prince or a state; revenue; exchequer.
- n. A treasurer.
- n. A public officer in Scotland who prosecutes in petty criminal cases; -- called also
procurator fiscal . - n. The solicitor in Spain and Portugal; the attorney-general.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. involving financial matters
Etymologies
- After Afrikaans fiskaal ("public official, hangman") (Wiktionary)
- French, from Latin fiscālis, from fiscus, money basket, treasury. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Readers see the term fiscal consolidation, but what does that mean exactly?”
“In the run-up to the summit, Mr. Draghi's use of the term "fiscal compact" had spurred hopes that the ECB would be prepared to engage in massive buying of bonds from distressed euro zone states, an interpretation he discouraged on Thursday.”
“In the run-up to the summit, Draghi's use of the term "fiscal compact" had spurred investor hopes that the ECB would engage in massive buying of bonds from distressed euro zone states.”
“They urgently need to formulate and clearly communicate a vision for a sound and stable euro area that deserves the name fiscal compact," Thomas Harjes, senior European economist at Barclays Capital in Frankfurt, wrote in a note on Jan. 6.”
“I firmly believe that the term fiscal conservative and Washington insider (read elected representative) are mutually exclusive.”
“Moody's cites what it calls the fiscal and economic conditions caused by the damaged power plant along with Cyprus' fractious political climate.”
“Moody's cited what it calls the fiscal and economic conditions caused by a damaged power plant along with Cyprus' fractious political climate.”
“Ms. Murkowski campaigned on a record of what she calls fiscal conservatism while taking actions to protect and expand oil and gas, fisheries and other big Alaskan industries.”
The Wall Street Journal: Palin Ally Upends Politics in Alaska
“Politicians and economists call it fiscal discipline.”
“And he's holding what he calls a fiscal responsibility summit.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fiscal’.
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henryar's list
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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POL - legislation
US Congress/Senate + Westminster + European Parliament usage
across the desk, act, action, adjournment, adjournment sine die, adoption, advise and consent, amendment, analysis of the b..., apportionment, appropriation, appropriations limit and 652 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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November Words-11337
fiscal, assuage, prolix, shroud, laconic, paucity, mollify, nascent, burgeon, turgid, absenteeism, guise and 38 more...
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EU Buzz - 100 most active collocation...
The 100 most frequent constituents of EU collocations. People working for the EU are able to complete any of these words to a multiple-word expression with ease. Try it out if you are one! For a gr...
accession, acquis, act, action, agenda, agreement, aid, area, assistance, association, base, budget and 88 more...
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work
director, president, chief, boss, consultant, adviser, assistant, advisor, specialist, manager, employee, counselor and 65 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Economists do it with models
arbitrage, behaviour, capital, dromography, embargo, fiscal, globalisation, hyperinflation, incentive, j-curve, keynesian, labour and 143 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Words of the Day
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pop ups
erstwhile, allegiance, sacked, reinstate, vengeance, affluent, sedative, maverick, caricatives, abandoned, faux pas, ambience and 245 more...
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barfi
turpentine, cognate, connotation, denotation, bias, unflinching, emptive, mob, amnesty, modestly, spear, incline and 150 more...
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Evin290's Words
puerile, fastidious, blatherskite, folderol, femtosecond, redox, incarnadine, cerulean, genuflection, muslin, multitudinous, miasma and 517 more...
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Still More Bird Wirds
A work in progress....Birds from around the world (other than endemic to North America).
barbet, hornbill, trogon, bee-eater, bristlehead, wren-babbler, stubtail, blackeye, bush warbler, cassowary, bowerbird, bird-of-paradise and 722 more...
Tweets
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dailyword We almost went over this. Jan 10, 2013
dailyword We almost went over this. Jan 10, 2013
lweber5@scf.edu Dictionary.com, fiscal policy is the use of government expenditure and revenue collection to influence the economy Nov 4, 2010
bilby "The conundrum began when Fielding, staging a routine press conference outside the Senate doors, spoke at length about the need for monetary policy and physical policy to be in line.
'You're talking about fiscal policy, are you?'inquired the Nine Network's Tim Lester cautiously, after Fielding's third repetition of the phrase.
'That's correct. Fiscal: F-I-S-K-A-L.'"
- Annabel Crabb, Once More With Fielding, theage.com.au, 9 September 2009.
Sep 9, 2009