financial

[ fi-nan-shuh l, fahy- ]

/ fɪˈnæn ʃəl, faɪ- /

adjective

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

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

noun

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

Words nearby financial

finals, finance, finance bill, finance charge, finance company, financial, financial accounting standards board, financial futures, financial ombudsman, financial planning, financial services authority

Origin of financial

First recorded in 1760–70; finance + -ial

SYNONYMS FOR financial

1 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.

OTHER WORDS FROM financial

fi·nan·cial·ly, adverbnon·fi·nan·cial, adjectivenon·fi·nan·cial·ly, adverbpre·fi·nan·cial, adjective

qua·si-fi·nan·cial, adjectivequa·si-fi·nan·cial·ly, adverb

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Examples from the Web for financially

Instead, it appears that the Obama administration has opted to punish North Korea financially.
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I am not the most financially literate person (I would be hard-pressed to articulate the term “junk bond”).
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Confusion about who is financially backing the project is mounting.
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It, too, soon abandoned the mission, finding it both logistically and financially impossible.
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At the time, last March, the then-46-year-old Omidyar was being heralded as a patron saint of the financially beleaguered newsbiz.
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The season continued for upwards of eight weeks, and was a pronounced success, both artistically and financially.
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Financially, however, the directors still swam in troubled waters.
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He not only tried to tarnish the name of my mother as well as my own, but he did his best to ruin me financially.
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Now that she was financially independent of Uncle Jabez Ruth was not so sensitive for herself.
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And Benjamin Crane made it quite worth her while, financially, to reserve for him her peculiar talents.
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British Dictionary definitions for financially

financial

/ (fɪˈnænʃəl, faɪ-) /

adjective

of or relating to finance or finances

of or relating to persons who manage money, capital, or credit

Australian and NZ informal having money; in funds

Australian and NZ (of a club member) fully paid-up

Derived forms of financial

financially, adverb

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financial

adjective

noun

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Words nearby financial

Origin of financial

SYNONYMS FOR financial

OTHER WORDS FROM financial

Examples from the Web for financially

British Dictionary definitions for financially

adjective

Derived forms of financial