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fiscal Definition

fis·cal (fis′kəl)

adjective

  1. having to do with the public treasury or revenues
  2. financial
  3. designating or of government policies of spending and taxation designed to maintain economic stability, promote full employment, etc.

Etymology: Fr < LL fiscalis < L fiscus, basket of rushes, public chest < IE *bhidh-, pot (> ON bitha, milk jug) < base *bheidh-, to weave, tie

noun

in some countries, a public prosecutor or other official

fiscal Related Forms
fis′·cally adverb
fiscal Synonyms

fiscal

modif.

monetary, economic, financial; see commercial 1. See syn. study at financial.

fiscal Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • appoint: Edinburgh district fiscal appointed William Gallacher receives commission from Lord Advocate Colin Boyd QC.

Adjective modifier

  • long-tailed: This bird replaces the Long-tailed Fiscal in areas with higher rainfall.
  • local: Instead, the local procurator fiscal inquires into sudden or suspicious deaths.

Modifies a noun

  • tightening: Sunday Telegraph Roger Bootle argued that a fiscal tightening is needed to meet the Golden Rule in the next cycle.
  • incentive: The fiscal incentive has been mostly at the company level, with the Climate Change Levy coming into effect in April 2001.
  • federalism: The other working groups are those on security, citizenship, fiscal federalism, independent commission, gender and national conference.
  • prudence: Monetary policy run independently of Government and fiscal prudence are the means of achieving it.
  • deficit: The fixed exchange rate regime under which the two countries operated was undermined by the fiscal deficits that were run from the 1980s.
  • irresponsibility: Gordon Brown's fiscal irresponsibility is undermining stability and our ability to create jobs.

Modifying Another Word

  • purely: It might not be unreasonable to infer that the reason was purely fiscal.
  • primarily: In this speech I want to concentrate upon some of the more neglected aspects of these changes, primarily fiscal policy.

Noun used with modifier

  • procurator: A report has been sent to the Procurator Fiscal.

Possessives

  • office: We will continue to assist the fiscal's office in any way that we can.

Used with adjective complement

  • release: Zarlink Semiconductor Inc. ( NYSE/TSX:ZL ) to Release Fiscal 2006 Third Quarter Results Tuesday, January 24th, 2006.
  • communicate: Communicate fiscal, contractual, resource, deliverable and client-related issues to Pace Senior Management as appropriate.

Preposition: of

  • district: This has, however, been checked by the measures promptly taken by the procurator fiscal of that district.