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Princeton's WordNet
fiscnoun
a state treasury or exchequer or a royal treasury; originally the public treasury of Rome or the emperor's private purse
Wiktionary
fiscnoun
The public treasury of ancient Rome.
fiscnoun
Any state treasury or exchequer.
Etymology: From fiskaz, from pisḱ-. Germanic cognates include Old Frisian fisk, Old Saxon fisc (Dutch vis), Old High German fisc (German Fisch), Old Norse fiskr (Swedish fisk), Gothic 034603390343033A0343. The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin piscis, Russian пискарь, Irish iasc.
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FISC
The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), also called the FISA Court, is a U.S. federal court established under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) to oversee requests for surveillance warrants against foreign spies inside the United States by federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies. FISA was created by the U.S. Congress based on the recommendations of the Senate's Church Committee, which was convened in 1975 to investigate illicit activities and civil rights abuses by the federal intelligence community. Pursuant to the law, the FISC reviews requests to conduct physical and electronic surveillance within the U.S. concerning "foreign intelligence information" between "foreign powers" and "agents of foreign powers" suspected of espionage or terrorism; such requests are made most often by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). From its opening in 1978 until 2009, the court was housed on the sixth floor of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building; since 2009, it has been relocated to the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington, D.C.
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fisc
A fisc is a term used in government and economics, referring to the state treasury or the public funds and revenues. It is often used in the context of a government's financial matters.
Webster Dictionary
Fiscnoun
a public or state treasury
Etymology: [F. fisc, fr. L. fiscus basket, money basket, treasury; prob. akin to fascis bundle. See Fasces.]
Wikidata
Fisc
Under the Merovingians and Carolingians, the fisc applied to the royal demesne which paid taxes, entirely in kind, from which the royal household was meant to be supported, though it rarely was. Though their personal territory was at first enormous, the Merovingian kings, faced with stiff resistance to taxation from their Frankish and Gallo-Roman subjects and ill-served by their illiterate peers, relied on constant conquests to renew the fisc which they were in the habit of granting away to ensure continued fidelity among their followers. Once fresh Frankish conquests were no longer forthcoming, constant redivision of the "fisc" among heirs reduced Merovingian kingship to a cluster of competitive kinglets subsisting on inadequate resources. Annual contributions in kind, of grain, produce, fodder, etc., were unwieldy to transport and not easily convertible, so the restless habit of Merovingian kings moving from stronghold to stronghold was constantly encouraged.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Fisc
fisk, n. the state treasury: the public revenue: one's purse.—adj. Fisc′al, pertaining to the public treasury or revenue.—n. a treasurer: a public prosecutor, the chief law officer of the crown under the Holy Roman Empire: (Scot.) an officer who prosecutes in petty criminal cases—fully, Procurator-fiscal. [O. Fr.,—L. fiscus, a purse.]
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The numerical value of FISC in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
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The numerical value of FISC in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
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Stephen Moore know, we have too many people dependent on government and the cost isn't so much of what it costs our fisc -- Stephen Moore know, the fiscal situation, it's really expensive. The cost, it just depletes people of their dignity and their meaning in life, i mean, there's nothing worse than being on the dole, right ?
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