Fiscal derives from the Latin noun fiscus, meaning "basket" or "treasury." In ancient Rome, fiscus was the term for the treasury controlled by the emperor, where the money was literally stored in baskets and was collected primarily in the form of revenue from the provinces. Fiscus also gave English confiscate, which is most familiar as a verb meaning "to seize by or as if by authority," but it can additionally refer to the forfeiting of private property to public use. Today, we often encounter fiscal in "fiscal year," a 12-month accounting period not necessarily coinciding with the calendar year.
Adjective the fiscal health of the university gained some fiscal knowledge by taking an economics course
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Those shocks will continue to weigh on GDP and fiscal performance. Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 16 Sep. 2022 The dismal record is well described by Oluseun Onigbinde, the head of a fiscal-transparency group called BudgIT. David Frum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022 To put it simply: anyone that supports fiscal accountability and transparency with tax dollars should oppose ESA expansion. Renata Cló, The Arizona Republic, 14 Sep. 2022 But many of Connecticut’s fiscal challenges will need longer than that. Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 10 Sep. 2022 The federal government was deadlocked and headed for a fiscal cliff, so the governor general, the queen’s man in Australia, fired the prime minister.BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2022 What Fink really wants, then, is a return to pre-Covid work culture, a time (and a fiscal regime) when inflation was consistently below 3%. Chloe Berger, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2022 What the group wants to find is a nonprofit organization that can act as a fiscal agent to raise and distribute money responsibly and transparently. Suzanne Baker, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2022 The Basque Country’s Guipuzcoa offers a 35% fiscal credit, Alava a 25% return. Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 6 Sep. 2022
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In May, when the government decided to cut the excise duty on petrol by Rs8 and on diesel by Rs6 per litre to reduce inflationary pressures, experts had estimated the cost to the exchequer would increase by Rs85,000 crore in the ongoing fiscal. Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 4 July 2022 His major reforms included fewer government programs and reduced government spending; less government intervention in fiscal, trade, and labor policies; income-tax cuts; and privatization. Lee Edwards, National Review, 14 Oct. 2019 The treasurer doesn't have much authority to set the state's fiscal or any other type of policy. Julia O'donoghue, NOLA.com, 13 Oct. 2017 If approved, the plan could raise $435 million through 2019, according to an April fiscal analysis of HB 2186. Joseph O’sullivan, The Seattle Times, 5 June 2017 This year that is not an option if Republicans want to advance their ambitious fiscal... Kate Davidson, WSJ, 18 May 2017 See More