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# fiscal

«fiscal» in Mova's school dictionary: **about government money: taxes and public spending** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (formal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) Fiscal means about government money: taxes and public spending. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fiscal/#m1)

2) (formal) Fiscal year: the twelve-month period a government or company uses for its accounts (US; «financial year» in the UK and Australia). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fiscal/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in news, economics and formal writing: «fiscal policy», «fiscal year», «fiscal deficit». Rarely used by children; everyday words are «money» or «financial».

### examples

- The government changed its fiscal policy to lower taxes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fiscal/#x1)
- The company reports its profits at the end of each fiscal year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fiscal/#x2)
- Fiscal rules limit how much a country can borrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fiscal/#x3)
- The report looked at fiscal spending on schools. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fiscal/#x4)
- A fiscal deficit means spending more than you collect. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fiscal/#x5)
- The mayor gave a fiscal update to the council. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fiscal/#x6)

### note

Formal, mostly about governments. Not the same as «physical» though it sounds a bit like it. «Financial» is broader (any money); «fiscal» is about public money and taxes.

### In the corpora

- ["Fiscal consolidation" means cuts in public spending and tax rises.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/24-government-spin/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fiscal» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fiscal/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.