fiscal Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective involving financial matters
    financial.
    • fiscal responsibility

WordNet

Fis"cal adjective
Etymology
F. fiscal, L. fiscalis, fr. fiscus. See Fisc.
Definitions
  1. Pertaining to the public treasury or revenue.
    The fiscal arreangements of government. A>Hamilton.
Fis"cal noun
Definitions
  1. The income of a prince or a state; revenue; exhequer. Obs. Bacon.
  2. A treasurer. H. Swinburne.
  3. A public officer in Scotland who prosecutes in petty criminal cases; -- called also procurator fiscal.
  4. The solicitor in Spain and Portugal; the attorney-general.

Webster 1913