Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The treasury of a kingdom or state.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A treasury, particularly that of a prince or a state.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A public or state treasury.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical The public
treasury of ancient Rome. - noun Any state
treasury orexchequer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a secret federal court created in 1978 by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; responsible for authorizing wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance and for authorizing searches of suspected spies and terrorists by the Department of Justice or United States intelligence agencies
- noun a state treasury or exchequer or a royal treasury; originally the public treasury of Rome or the emperor's private purse
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Should his state alone give up earmarks for the sake of the national fisc, which is something everyone should be concerned about?
Ace of Spades HQ 2009
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Slower growth this year is robbing the fisc of tax revenues, yet spending continues to accelerate.
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The ECB's interest rates also appear to have been too low for Ireland's overheating economy, partially fueling the real-estate bubble that took down the country's banks and public fisc.
Ireland's Private Pension Raid Marian L. Tupy 2011
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People need to stay vigilant and be tenacious to protect public lands, and the public fisc.
Saltzman looking for easy way out on Paulson stadiums? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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And sure enough, CBO, in its final estimate at passage, said that Class would reduce the deficit by $70 billion through 2019—or more than half the bill's supposed $124 billion 10-year "savings" to the federal fisc.
Class Dismissed 2011
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Regarding the burden on the poor, I'd respond that it depends on the overall post-fisc versus pre-fisc level of well-being among the poor.
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The freshman Republican now fears the talks will end with a whimper of small revenue and spending measures that will do little to help the economy or the federal fisc.
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For Germany in particular, the fear is that a shared fisc will amount to industrious countries subsidizing spendthrift ones.
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Spending is due to double over the next decade, feeding on more and more of the federal fisc and national wealth.
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"However, generally speaking, we are always concerned about any threat to the public fisc and will work to hold individuals accountable if wrongdoing is found and able to be proven."
Ex-Judge's Disability Rulings Probed Damian Paletta 2011
qms commented on the word fisc
Though beef was but rarely a fisc fit
On Paddy's Day they'd always risk it.
The immigrant tide
Took pleasure and pride
In platters of cabbage and brisket.
July 6, 2017