fiscal
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From Middle French fiscal, from Latin fiscus (“treasury”) – see fiscus and fisc.
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fiscal (comparative more fiscal, superlative most fiscal)
- Related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.
- fiscal matters
- fiscal lawyer
- fiscal system
- (proscribed) Pertaining to finance and money in general; financial.
- Being a fiscal year.
- 1990 August 31, John Zeh, “NEA Session Disrupted”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 7, page 3:
- The allotment is $22 million less than the Pentagon spent on military bands in fiscal 1990.
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fiscal (plural fiscals)
- A public official in certain countries having control of public revenue.
- 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 149:
- ‘There I was interrogated by the Fiscal, who was making out a proces verbal […] .’
- (Scots law) Procurator fiscal, a public prosecutor.
- (law) In certain countries, including Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and former colonies of these countries and certain British colonies, solicitor or attorney general.
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From Spanish fiscal, ultimately from Latin fiscus (“treasury”)
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fiscal (plural fiscals)
- (Philippines, law) A public prosecutor (UK) or a district attorney (US).
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After Afrikaans fiskaal (“public official, hangman”).
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fiscal (plural fiscals)
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- Lanius on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Lanius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
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fiscal m or f (masculine and feminine plural fiscals)
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fiscal m or f by sense (plural fiscals)
- (law) public prosecutor (UK), district attorney (US)
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- “fiscal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “fiscal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “fiscal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “fiscal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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fiscal (feminine fiscale, masculine plural fiscaux, feminine plural fiscales)
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- “fiscal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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fiscal m or f (plural fiscais)
- fiscal (relating to taxes)
- Synonym: tributário
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fiscal m or f by sense (plural fiscais)
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Borrowed from French fiscal. By surface analysis, fisc + -al.
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fiscal m or n (feminine singular fiscală, masculine plural fiscali, feminine and neuter plural fiscale)
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singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | fiscal | fiscală | fiscali | fiscale | ||
definite | fiscalul | fiscala | fiscalii | fiscalele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | fiscal | fiscale | fiscali | fiscale | ||
definite | fiscalului | fiscalei | fiscalilor | fiscalelor |
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fiscal m or f (masculine and feminine plural fiscales)
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fiscal m (plural fiscales, feminine fiscal or fiscala, feminine plural fiscales or fiscalas)
- (law) public prosecutor (UK), district attorney (US)
- 2015 September 15, “Anticorrupción pide la imputación del exministro Pimentel en los ERE”, in El País[1]:
- En el escrito elevado a la titular del Juzgado de Instrucción 6 de Sevilla, los fiscales piden la imputación de Pimentel y otras 24 personas —algunas ya imputadas en la causa— no solo por la ayuda a Taller de Libros sino también por el pago de las prejubilaciones de 10 trabajadores de la empresa cordobesa.
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- “fiscal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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