fiscal agent

American  

noun

1. a person or organization serving as another's financial agent.

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Etymology

Origin of fiscal agent

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

In the United States, Congress passes the budget, while the Treasury, in cooperation with its fiscal agent, the Federal Reserve, makes the necessary payments.

From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2020

The GDB, which acts as bank, adviser and fiscal agent to the Puerto Rican commonwealth, is essentially the checking account where municipalities deposit and withdraw money.

From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2016

The Federal Reserve, as fiscal agent for the U.S.

From BusinessWeek • Jan. 18, 2011

With the same absence of fanfare, Charles R. Dunn, fiscal agent for the twelve Federal Land Banks, disposed of a $100,000,000 issue last December, one of $239,000,000 last June, another of $162,000,000 a year ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was furnished, still in the vicinity of Montmorenci, by another aristocratic friend, the Maréchal de Luxembourg, the fiscal agent of the Prince de Condé.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam by Lord, John