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fiscal

Syllables: fis·cal/ˈfɪskəl/

fiscal adjective: related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.

Adjective

fiscal (comparative more fiscal, superlative most fiscal)

  1. Related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.
    • fiscal matters
    • fiscal lawyer
  2. (proscribed) Pertaining to finance and money in general; financial.
  3. Being a fiscal year.
    • The allotment is $22 million less than the Pentagon spent on military bands in fiscal 1990.1990 August 31, John Zeh, “NEA Session Disrupted”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 7, page 3

Noun (1)

fiscal (plural fiscals)

  1. A public official in certain countries having control of public revenue.
    • ‘There I was interrogated by the Fiscal, who was making out a proces verbal […].’1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 149
  2. (Scots law) Procurator fiscal, a public prosecutor.
  3. In certain countries, including Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and former colonies of these countries and certain British colonies, solicitor or attorney general.

Noun (2)

fiscal (plural fiscals)

  1. (Philippines) A public prosecutor (UK) or a district attorney (US).

Noun (3)

fiscal (plural fiscals)

  1. Any of various African shrikes of the genus Lanius.

Proper noun capitalized: Fiscal

Fiscal (plural Fiscals)

  1. A surname from Spanish.

fiscal meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

fiscal in Hindi

fiscal, monetary
मौद्रिक maudrik

fiscal in Bengali

রাজস্বঘটিত

fiscal in Malayalam

ഭണ്ഡാരസംബന്ധിയായ, ഖജാനസംബന്ധിച്ച, സാമ്പത്തികമായ, ധനസംബന്ധമായ

fiscal in Kannada

ಹಣಕಾಸಿನ
More languagesFewer languages
fiscal in Gujarati
રાજકોષીય
fiscal in Nepali
राजकोषीय
fiscal in Arabic
مَالِيّ māliyy
fiscal in Indonesian
fiskal

Examples of fiscal in a sentence

  • They are at loggerheads over how best to tackle the fiscal cliff.
  • A principle of fiscal Hawkery was to never allow a planned deficit.
  • We discussed the proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

All 40 example sentences with fiscal

Forms of fiscal

Adjective
comparativemore fiscal
superlativemost fiscal
Noun
pluralfiscals
Proper noun
pluralFiscals

Origin of fiscal

From Middle French fiscal, from Latin fiscus (“treasury”) – see fiscus and fisc.

From Spanish fiscal, ultimately from Latin fiscus (“treasury”).

After Afrikaans fiskaal (“public official, hangman”).

Words formed from fiscal

Phrases with fiscal

Words that rhyme with fiscal

Questions about fiscal

What does fiscal mean?
Fiscal means related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.
What is fiscal in Hindi?
Fiscal in Hindi is मौद्रिक (maudrik). See Fiscal meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is fiscal?
Fiscal can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce fiscal?
Fiscal is pronounced /ˈfɪskəl/.

Words near fiscal in the dictionary

  1. fisavirus
  2. fisaviruses
  3. fisbo
  4. fisbos
  5. fisc
  6. fiscal
  7. fiscal cliff
  8. fiscal cliffs
  9. fiscal conservatism
  10. fiscal conservative
  11. fiscal conservatives

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fiscal (page history and authors); Fiscal (page history and authors); मौद्रिक (Hindi) (page history and authors); fiscal (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fiscal (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fiscal (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fiscal (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fiscal (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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