Banker vs Fiscal - What's the difference?
banker | fiscal |
One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.
(obsolete) A money changer.
The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.
The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.
A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
(UK, dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.
* 1941 , (Ernestine Hill), My Love Must Wait , A&R Classics 2013, p. 6:
(rail transport, British, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.
Related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.
(proscribed) Pertaining to finance and money in general; financial.
A public official in certain countries having control of public revenue.
(British, Scottish law) Procurator fiscal, a public prosecutor.
(legal) In certain countries, including Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, and former colonies of these countries and certain British colonies, solicitor or attorney general.
As nouns the difference between banker and fiscal
is that banker is one who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc while fiscal is a public official in certain countries having control of public revenue.As an adjective fiscal is
related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.banker
English
Etymology 1
From bank + , after French banquierNoun
(wikipedia banker) (en noun)- (Weale)
Etymology 2
From bank (An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea) + -erNoun
(en noun)- But this was no storm, the bankers could have told him. It was break of the year.
- (Grabb)