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financial

[ fi-nan-shuhl, fahy- ]

adjective

  1. pertaining to monetary receipts and expenditures; pertaining or relating to money matters; pecuniary:

    financial operations.

  2. of or relating to those commonly engaged in dealing with money and credit.


noun

  1. financials, financial information or data about a company, as balance sheets and price-earnings ratio.

financial

/ faɪ-; fɪˈnænʃəl /

adjective

  1. of or relating to finance or finances
  2. of or relating to persons who manage money, capital, or credit
  3. informal.
    having money; in funds
  4. (of a club member) fully paid-up
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • fiˈnancially, adverb
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Other Words From

  • fi·nancial·ly adverb
  • nonfi·nancial adjective
  • nonfi·nancial·ly adverb
  • prefi·nancial adjective
  • quasi-fi·nancial adjective
  • quasi-fi·nancial·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of financial1

First recorded in 1760–70; finance + -ial
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Synonym Study

Financial, fiscal, monetary, pecuniary refer to matters concerned with money. Financial usually refers to money matters or transactions of some size or importance: a financial wizard. Fiscal is used especially in connection with government funds, or those of any organization: the end of the fiscal year. Monetary relates especially to money as such: a monetary system or standard. Pecuniary refers to money as used in making ordinary payments: a pecuniary obligation or reward.
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Example Sentences

The Singapore hub coincides with the launch of a multi-year global campaign with financial services company ING.

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Smith, as part of written responses to The Post, deferred specific questions about the financial setup to a “marketing partner” called Rally Forge, which he said was running the program for Turning Point.

While it lost 20% during 2008’s financial crisis, it gained 45% and 25% in 2010 and 2011, respectively.

From Fortune

No matter the country, financial industry incumbents can have outdated systems and processes and lots of people, Russak-Aminoach says, meaning “how far you can go with your turnaround is limited.”

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For instance, a client might want to target financial advisors or CEOs and see everything that the audience group has read over the last month.

From Digiday

First, his credentials: He did international mergers and acquisitions at Lazard, a financial and asset management firm.

To most of the world, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is a convicted sex offender and a financial grifter.

That could include private financial or personal information—like the credit-card numbers you used to pay for the corrupted Wi-Fi.

Despite the financial remedy, partial repeal of the screen quota has imperiled the domestic market.

Neither Smith nor Marx can carry us far into the guts of globalized financial capitalism.

The temptation to pour his financial troubles into the sympathetic ears of these two dear women he resisted.

My new-found old schoolmate had become the financial manager of a great business house having ramifications throughout the world.

Financial depression had succeeded a time of wild excitement, and the Midland dividend had fallen from seven to two per cent.

When an article is written, the financial reward (and we may as well live as not) is a matter of certainty.

He and his friends obtained the lease, for thirty-one years, of a rival line, which turned out a great financial success.

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