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fiscal | null |

As nouns the difference between fiscal and null

is that fiscal is a public official in certain countries having control of public revenue or fiscal can be any of various african shrikes of the genus lanius while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective fiscal

is related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.

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.
  • See also

    * finance, financial

    Etymology 2

    After (etyl)

    Noun

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

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----