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FISCAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fiscal mean? 

FISCAL (adjective)
  The adjective FISCAL has 1 sense:

1. involving financial mattersplay

  Familiarity information: FISCAL used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FISCAL (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Involving financial matters

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

financial; fiscal

Context example:

fiscal responsibility

Pertainym:

finance (the commercial activity of providing funds and capital)

Derivation:

fisc (a state treasury or exchequer or a royal treasury; originally the public treasury of Rome or the emperor's private purse)


 Context examples 


The National Childhood Cancer Foundation is a non-profit organization that serves as the fund-raising foundation, grantee organization, and the fiscal agent for the Children Oncology Group.

(National Childhood Cancer Foundation, NCI Thesaurus)

The Office of Administrative Management, develops and executes the administrative, fiscal, and management aspects of (institute) programs.

(Office of Administrative Management, NCI Thesaurus)

Fiscal support for research from industry, government, or non-commercial, non-governmental organizations.

(Funding, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The NCI-Funded Research Portfolio Database is a searchable database that contains information about research grant and contract awards made by the NCI for the current and past five fiscal years.

(NCI-Funded Research Portfolio Database, NCI Thesaurus)

Fiscal support from governmental organizations.

(Government Funding, NCI Thesaurus)

A scientist or health care professional that has a financial agreement, as outlined in a binding statement of work, with the sponsor to bear full and ultimate responsibility for the scientific, administrative, ethical, legal, technical, and fiscal aspects of the study, and for day-to-day management of the scientific project, as well as for documenting and reporting its results.

(Contract Principal Investigator, NCI Thesaurus)



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