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fisc

noun
/fɪsk/

Etymology

Partly from Middle French fisc and partly from its etymon, Latin fiscus (“basket, money-bag, public treasury”); see fiscal.

  1. borrowed from fiscus
  2. borrowed from fisc

Definitions

  1. The public treasury of Rome.

  2. Any state treasury or exchequer.

    • When they had resolved to appropriate to the Fisc, a certain portion of the landed property of their conquered country, it was their business to render their bank a real fund of credit […].
    • He did not mention that Trump is about as popular with the British public as drug-resistant syphilis and that it would be political suicide to bribe him with cash out of the public fisc.

  3. A surname.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA