fiscal policy

1. 1.

   a government policy for dealing with the budget (especially with taxation and borrowing)

   Broadereconomic policy

Questions about fiscal policy

What does fiscal policy mean?

fiscal policy means "a government policy for dealing with the budget (especially with taxation and borrowing)".

Is fiscal policy a common word?

fiscal policy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.