What does "fiscal" mean?
Fiscal: The income of a prince or a state; revenue; exhequer. [Obs.] Bacon.
Additional senses
- 2.A treasurer. H. Swinburne.
- 3.A public officer in Scotland who prosecutes in petty criminal cases; -- called also procurator fiscal.
- 4.The solicitor in Spain and Portugal; the attorney-general.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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