Fiscal

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The income of a prince or a state; revenue; exhequer. [Obs.] Bacon.

2. A treasurer. H. Swinburne.

3. A public officer in Scotland who prosecutes in petty criminal cases; -- called also procurator fiscal.

4. The solicitor in Spain and Portugal; the attorney-general.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Pertaining to the public treasury or revenue. The fiscal arreangements of government. A. Hamilton.