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What is the difference between financial and fiscal?

financial | fiscal |

As adjectives the difference between financial and fiscal

is that financial is related to finances while fiscal is related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.

As a noun fiscal is

a public official in certain countries having control of public revenue.

financial

English

Adjective

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  • Related to finances.
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  • Having dues and fees paid up to date for a club or society.

    • Usage notes

    Not to be confused with (fiscal), which means more narrowly “pertaining to a treasury, particularly to government spending and revenue”, rather than to money generally.

    Derived terms

    * financial market * financial year * financial regulation

    Related terms

    * finances * financier

    See also

    * fiscal

    fiscal

    English

    (wikipedia fiscal)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) fiscal, from (etyl) – see (fiscus) and (fisc).

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.
    • Usage notes
    * Not to be confused with (financial), which refers to money generally, particularly lending and banking, rather than narrowly to a treasury.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    • Related terms

    * fisc

    See also

    * finance, financial

    Etymology 2

    After (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various African shrikes of the genus Lanius .
    • See also
    * (Lanius) * (Lanius) ----