fiscal

IPA: fˈɪskʌɫ

A public official in certain countries having control of public revenue.
(Britain, Scotland, law) Procurator fiscal, a public prosecutor.
(law) In certain countries, including Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and former colonies of these countries and certain British colonies, solicitor or attorney general.
(Philippines, law) A public prosecutor (UK) or a district attorney (US).
Any of various African shrikes of the genus Lanius.
A surname from Spanish.

Related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.
(proscribed) Pertaining to finance and money in general; financial.

Examples of "fiscal" in Sentences

Readers see the term fiscal consolidation, but what does that mean exactly?
I firmly believe that the term fiscal conservative and Washington insider (read elected representative) are mutually exclusive.
Moody's cited what it calls the fiscal and economic conditions caused by a damaged power plant along with Cyprus' fractious political climate.
Moody's cites what it calls the fiscal and economic conditions caused by the damaged power plant along with Cyprus' fractious political climate.
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.
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.
"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.