fisc
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- noun
- /fɪsk/
- Archaic
- In Alden, the Court explained this concern as follows: "Private suits against nonconsenting States may threaten their financial integrity, and... strain States' ability to govern in accordance with their citizens' will, for judgment creditors compete with other important needs and worthwhile ends for access to the public fisc..." 311 #
- a public fisc
Examples
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But things are getting much, much worse than even you seem to think, for the law schools are moving beyond the simple financial destruction of individuals into a studied defrauding of the public fisc.
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I just used that term because it is accurate; the root "fisc" refers to a government's treasury, and speaking of taxes being confiscated.
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Guess what, the FISC agrees with me.
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The Affirmative has not met its burden to show the proposal would benefit either the economy or the fisc.
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The War on Drugs gutted that one a long time ago, and FISA/FISC before that.
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McArdle also seems unnecessarily worried about the public fisc.
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If you do, then I will probably end up being correct and you will be wrong about this being a step forward, as it will merely cement the entrenchment of another fund-dependent complex into the federal fisc.
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The Court's observation in Alden about "financial integrity" resembles an insight found in cases protecting local government's role in managing the public fisc.
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Under the classical liberal theory, however, it is unclear why profits generated by conflicted transactions or misappropriated business opportunities would belong, strictly speaking, to beneficiaries rather than to the public fisc.
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In ancient Rome, the emperor controlled the fisc, which was the source of state funds.
Synonyms
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A United States government department that collects taxes and manages the country's money
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Money that the government keeps and the office that holds and pays it
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Money that a government, organization, or person has
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fisc comes from the Latin fiscus, which meant 'purse' — a bag for money. It is the same root as fiscal, so fisc came to mean the state's or ruler's treasury, the place where taxes and public money are kept.