financier
pronunciation
How to pronounce financier in British English:
UK [faɪˈnænsiə(r)]
How to pronounce financier in American English:
US [ˌfɪnənˈsɪr]
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- Noun:
- a person skilled in large scale financial transactions
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- Verb:
- conduct financial operations, often in an unethical manner
Word Origin
- financier (n.)
- 1610s, "one concerned with finances" (especially public), from French financier (16c.), from finance (see finance (n.)). Sense of "capitalist, one skilled in financial operations" is first recorded 1867.
Example
- 1. She met a financier on yahoo 's dating site .
- 2. His father is a wildly wealthy swiss financier .
- 3. That is the advice one would give an ambitious financier .
- 4. The disgraced financier built his career and his one-time glowing reputation from nothing .
- 5. Both men are creating a new sort of business drivel : billionaire financier drivel .