fisc
IPA: fˈɪsk
noun
- (Ancient Rome) The public treasury of Rome.
- Any state treasury or exchequer.
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Examples of "fisc" in Sentences
- People need to stay vigilant and be tenacious to protect public lands, and the public fisc.
- Slower growth this year is robbing the fisc of tax revenues, yet spending continues to accelerate.
- Spending is due to double over the next decade, feeding on more and more of the federal fisc and national wealth.
- For Germany in particular, the fear is that a shared fisc will amount to industrious countries subsidizing spendthrift ones.
- Should his state alone give up earmarks for the sake of the national fisc, which is something everyone should be concerned about?
- Regarding the burden on the poor, I'd respond that it depends on the overall post-fisc versus pre-fisc level of well-being among the poor.
- The freshman Republican now fears the talks will end with a whimper of small revenue and spending measures that will do little to help the economy or the federal fisc.
- "However, generally speaking, we are always concerned about any threat to the public fisc and will work to hold individuals accountable if wrongdoing is found and able to be proven."
- The ECB's interest rates also appear to have been too low for Ireland's overheating economy, partially fueling the real-estate bubble that took down the country's banks and public fisc.
- And sure enough, CBO, in its final estimate at passage, said that Class would reduce the deficit by $70 billion through 2019—or more than half the bill's supposed $124 billion 10-year "savings" to the federal fisc.
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