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fiscal

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1. fiscal - Noun

2. fiscal - Adjective

3. Fiscal - Proper noun

Meaning

Pertaining to the public treasury or revenue.

The income of a prince or a state; revenue; exhequer.

A treasurer.

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

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Tim Kaine has a message of fiscal responsibility and generosity of spirit. That kind of message can sell anywhere. Barack Obama

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation. Carl Levin

Especially today, given the tight fiscal situation that many States and localities face, the use of transportation facilities that pay for themselves without additional Federal funding is essential. Michael Burgess

Nigeria, with the oil sector, had the reputation of being corrupt and not managing its own public finances well. So what did we try to do? We introduced a fiscal rule that de-linked our budget from the oil price. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption. Sherrod Brown

What saved the economy, and the New Deal was the enormous public-works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs. Paul Krugman

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