procurator fiscal

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noun

(in Scotland) a legal officer who performs the functions of public prosecutor and coronerSometimes shortened to: fiscal

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How to use procurator fiscal in a sentence

Take fiscal year 2013, the last year the finalized data is available.
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I would define Rockefeller Republican in the classic sense as a combination of fiscal responsibility and social conscience.
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Without those subsidies, the worst-case scenario has Obamacare entering a fiscal death spiral.
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It was that we have serious fiscal problems that are going to bankrupt cities and towns—literally—and hurt a lot of people.
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A former House Budget chairman and Fox News alumnus, Kasich was a libertarian leaning fiscal conservative before it was cool.
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For this purpose, the order is sending Father Francisco Gutierrez as their procurator-general.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
But all these fiscal operations should be, for our present purposes, separated from monetary operations.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
The issue of government paper money is, indeed, a new departure; but its purpose has been more distinctly monetary than fiscal.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
Your Majesty assigns him no salary, for it seems to be your intention to have him attend to that duty with his salary as fiscal.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
As the Chinese are so numerous, the sum amounts to considerable, although it it not all paid to the fiscal.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various