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fiats

fiats is the plural of fiat.

fiats is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fiat.

Meaning of fiat

Noun

fiat (countable and uncountable, plural fiats)

  1. An arbitrary or authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
    • A royal fiat.
  2. Authorization, permission or (official) sanction.
    • A government fiat.
  3. (English) A warrant of a judge for certain processes.
  4. (English) An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.
  5. (attributive) (Pertaining to) fiat currency.
    • But let us trace a little more particularly the differences between the "fiat" dollar and the greenback. The greenback, in common with every bank note any of you have ever seen, contains a promise to pay dollars.1888, Lew Wallace, Life of Gen. Ben Harrison, page 281

See all 8 meanings of fiat

Noun (1) capitalized: FIATs

FIATs

  1. (plural) plural of FIAT

Noun (2) capitalized: Fiats

Fiats

  1. (plural) plural of Fiat

Questions about fiats

What is fiats the plural of?
Fiats is the plural of fiat.
What part of speech is fiats?
Fiats is a noun.

Words near fiats in the dictionary

  1. fiat money
  2. fiat moneys
  3. fiat monies
  4. fiated
  5. fiating
  6. fiats
  7. fiatsplain
  8. fiatsplained
  9. fiatsplainer
  10. fiatsplainers
  11. fiatsplaining

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fiats (page history and authors); FIATs (page history and authors); Fiats (page history and authors); fiat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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