What does fiscal mean?

Definitions for fiscal
ˈfɪs kəlfis·cal

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word fiscal.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. fiscal, financialadjective

    involving financial matters

    "fiscal responsibility"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Fiscalnoun

    Exchequer; revenue.

    Etymology: from fiscus, a treasury, Latin.

    War, as it is entertained by diet, so can it not be long maintained by the ordinary fiscal and receipt. Francis Bacon.

ChatGPT

  1. fiscal

    Fiscal generally refers to matters related to public money or financial affairs, such as government revenue, spending, and debt. It often involves financial policies of governments, including tax collection, public expenditure, budgeting, and debt issuance. It is also used to determine the economic policy year, known as the fiscal year, which may not necessarily follow the calendar year.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Fiscaladjective

    pertaining to the public treasury or revenue

  2. Fiscalnoun

    the income of a prince or a state; revenue; exhequer

  3. Fiscalnoun

    a treasurer

  4. Fiscalnoun

    a public officer in Scotland who prosecutes in petty criminal cases; -- called also procurator fiscal

  5. Fiscalnoun

    the solicitor in Spain and Portugal; the attorney-general

  6. Etymology: [F. fiscal, L. fiscalis, fr. fiscus. See Fisc.]

Editors Contribution

  1. fiscal

    Involving finance.

    The governments fiscal capacity was improving every day.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 7, 2020  

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. FISCAL

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fiscal is ranked #30735 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Fiscal surname appeared 758 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Fiscal.

    96.4% or 731 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    3.3% or 25 total occurrences were White.

British National Corpus

  1. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'fiscal' in Adjectives Frequency: #846

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fiscal in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fiscal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of fiscal in a Sentence

  1. Luis Otavio de Souza Leal:

    The fiscal adjustment will have an economic impact, but the bribery scandal at Petrobras could also make things worse.

  2. Gopal Krishna Agarwal:

    There's definitely a suggestion to give interest-free loans to farmers. Banks won't have to pay, it has to be incorporated into the budget, and what's the so sacrosanct issue about keeping the fiscal deficit at less than 3.5 percent? If you don't adopt an expansionary economic policy, then the government alone can't create demand by just spending on infrastructure. It has to come from both public and the private sector. The economy will grow only when demand will be created.

  3. John Thune:

    Do they want to be the party of limited government and fiscal responsibility, free markets, peace through strength and pro-life, or do they want to be the party of conspiracy theories and QAnon, and I think that is the decision they've got to face.

  4. Masaru Hamasaki:

    Many of the defensive stocks are already at expensive levels, so key is whether the country's fiscal policy can help domestic-demand sensitive companies further grow.

  5. Sampson Akligoh:

    The lessons of 2012 have been so visible for the government, and the fact that it's taken them many years to correct the fiscal slippage in that year, so it's something they are very much guarding against, i am confident that they will stay the course through the elections.

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