Fiscal vs Prosecution - What's the difference?
fiscal | prosecution |
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.
The act of prosecuting a scheme or endeavor.
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(lb) The institution of legal proceedings (particularly criminal) against a person.
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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
(lb) The prosecuting party.
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As nouns the difference between fiscal and prosecution
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 prosecution is the act of prosecuting a scheme or endeavor.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)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)See also
* finance, financialEtymology 2
After (etyl)See also
* (Lanius) * (Lanius) ----prosecution
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Noun
(en noun)Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?, passage=The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip, threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths. As he walked off the bridge, Clemons was alleged to have said: "We threw them off. Let's go."}}