financier
Americannoun
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financiers
plural
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
noun
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Etymology
Origin of financier
From French, dating back to 1610–20; see origin at finance, -ier 2
Explanation
A financier is someone who handles big clients and big financial transactions. A financier is the high-profile star of a company and the envy of the overworked entry-level workers. The suffix -ier in financier tells you that this word refers to a person who has something to do with finance. But where does the word finance come from? Long ago, it meant "to settle or end a debt," which you can see in fin, the Old French word for "end." But as financial work evolved, it came to also encompass taxation and revenue, not just debt collection.
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Instead of basking in the wealth he had amassed as a banker and financier, Mellon accepted a summons from President-elect Warren G. Harding and got on a train to Marion, Ohio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
After his death, it sold to financier David Murdock in 1980 for $12.4 million, setting a national price record at the time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026
Najib, 73, had a close relationship with Jho Low, the fugitive Malaysian financier and alleged mastermind of the scheme.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
She later said she wished she had never met the late disgraced financier.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Although he came from a modest background–his father was a farmer in upstate New York–his uncle was the supremely rich and extraordinarily indulgent financier George Peabody.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
"If AI demand disappoints, spending cuts could hit chipmakers, data-center builders and their financiers at once," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
“Within base metals, there are not a lot of good companies,” he said, because mining firms and financiers “have destroyed capital by investing heavily at the wrong times.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
The bond financiers milling around the IMF meetings seem to be taking another look at the UK after years of crisis.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Without them we’d have no arbitrage, entrepreneurs, tranches, financiers or even millionaires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The Bank of England and a syndicate of financiers were racing to raise a fund to guarantee Baring’s financial obligations.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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