adjective. Of or relating to government expenditures, revenues, and debt.

adjective. Of or relating to finance or finances.

Of or pertaining to the public treasury or revenue; relating to or concerned with the collection and expenditure of taxes and customs; pertaining to the financial operations of a government.

Hence Of or pertaining to financial matters in general: as, a, fiscal agent.

noun. Revenue; the income of a sovereign or state.

noun. In some countries, a treasurer or minister of finance.

noun. In Spain and Portugal, the king's solicitor or attorney-general.

noun. A public prosecutor. In Scotland he is also called procurator-fiscal. In the Dutch colonies in America the officer who acted as sheriff and public prosecutor and carried out the customs regulations of the Dutch West India Company was called a fiscal, or schout fiscael (fiscal sheriff).

noun. An African shrike, as Lanius or Fiscus collaris.

adjective. Pertaining to the public treasury or revenue.

noun. The income of a prince or a state; revenue; exchequer.

noun. A treasurer.

noun. A public officer in Scotland who prosecutes in petty criminal cases; -- called also procurator fiscal.

noun. The solicitor in Spain and Portugal; the attorney-general.

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

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

adjective. Pertaining to finance and money in general; financial.

noun. A public official in certain countries having control of public revenue.

noun. Procurator fiscal, a public prosecutor.

noun. In certain countries, including Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and former colonies of these countries and certain British colonies, solicitor or attorney general.

adjective. involving financial matters

"Readers see the term fiscal consolidation, but what does that mean exactly?"

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