fisc
fisc — noun
1. the money a government has ready to spend, raised mainly through taxes and other
the money a government has ready to spend, raised mainly through taxes and other public income
Years of war slowly drained Spain's fisc, and the army went unpaid for months.
drain the fisc for exhausting public funds
Dario warned the king that the fisc could not pay for another new palace.
Heavy taxes on salt and wine kept the city's fisc full during the long siege.
When the harvest failed, almost nothing flowed into the fisc that year.
Sana argued that every new tax would only add a little to the fisc.
- public purse
an everyday idiom for government money; far more common in modern English than 'fisc'
- coffers
usually plural; the store of money a state or group holds
- treasury
can mean either the money itself or the department that keeps it
文法句型
the fisc
into the fisc
drain the fisc
用法筆記
Almost always used of public or state money, never of a private person's savings. Common with verbs of filling and emptying: drain, fill, flow into, add to.
常見錯誤
2. a government office or store that keeps and controls a state's or ruler's money,
a government office or store that keeps and controls a state's or ruler's money, as in ancient Rome
In ancient Rome, the emperor controlled the fisc and decided how its gold was spent.
the fisc as the ruler's treasury
Theo studied how clerks in the fisc counted every coin that reached Rome.
in the fisc for the treasury office
The general sent the captured silver straight to the fisc in the capital.
Hui explained that the fisc once held both the emperor's money and the army's pay.
Guards stood at the door of the fisc day and night to protect the coins.
文法句型
the fisc
in the fisc
to the fisc
用法筆記
Distinguish from sense 1: this sense names the treasury office or store itself, while sense 1 means the money kept in it. Most often seen in writing about ancient Rome.