1. A state treasury or exchequer or a royal treasury; originally the public treasury of Rome or the emperor's private purse
   "The king's fisc was separate from the public treasury"

1. A secret federal court created in 1978 by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; responsible for authorizing wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance and for authorizing searches of suspected spies and terrorists by the Department of Justice or United States intelligence agencies
   - Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

Derived forms: fiscs

Type of: court, exchequer [Brit], judicature, treasury, tribunal

Part of: Federal Judiciary

Encyclopedia: Fisc