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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.
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Ania Nussbaum, Fortune Europe, 16 Apr. 2024
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Some 301,000 migrants were paroled at official ports of entry in fiscal 2023; the highest annual total under Mr. Trump was 75,000.
—Caitlin Babcock, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Apr. 2024
Lawmakers filed a flurry of bills Wednesday aimed at addressing concerns regarding crypto mining on the first day of the fiscal session, looking for different approaches to regulating the burgeoning, and sometimes loud, industry that has frustrated many in rural Arkansas.
—Neal Earley, arkansasonline.com, 11 Apr. 2024
But even so, the company lifted its adjusted fiscal 2025 outlook.
—Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2024
His pay stayed at that level until the board’s compensation committee announced a new plan last month for fiscal 2025.
—Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2024
The Headway initiative is funded through grants from the Ford Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors serving as a fiscal sponsor.
—Lydia Depillis, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
At a news conference Wednesday, fiscal leaders from both chambers said the roughly $63 billion budget would restore funding for immediate transportation needs and fund the state’s signature education program, known as the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, through fiscal 2027.
—Katie Shepherd, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024
While questioning Lee on Wednesday, Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) broached ignoring his requirement to replenish the city’s local fiscal stabilization fund, which functions like a rainy-day fund, to save the teachers’ salary money.
—Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 11 May 2023
Medtronic expects organic revenue growth of around 4% in the second half of the current fiscal.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
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
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“Fiscal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fiscal. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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Latin fiscalis, from fiscus basket, treasury
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