financier
Americannoun
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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Laguna Beach real estate mogul Mohammad Honarkar was awarded $1.34 billion in a dispute with a local financier, who has been arrested on federal bank fraud charges in another case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Like many others who have spoken to the committee as it investigates Epstein's connections to the wealthy and powerful, Black said the disgraced financier had deceived him.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Fellow economists Marina Gertsberg, Ekaterina Volkova and I found that the disgraced financier effectively wired corporate America into a denser, more tightly interconnected network.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
The start of his trial came just days after documents were released in the US revealing exchanges Mette-Marit had with the disgraced financier Epstein.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
The financier David Rubinstein bought a fifteen-acre waterfront property, tore down the existing house, as many wealthy buyers have done, and put up an 8,000-square-foot home.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
He’s earned the right to ask financiers and his building fan base for their trust.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Some finance ministers, central bankers and financiers have since expressed serious concerns about it, fearing the model could undermine the security of all financial systems.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
The real nuclear financiers are not in Washington.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026
Milei’s financiers have started informally dickering with investors over pricing the next issue, which should fly around current yields in a market hungry for emerging market exposure, Grills predicts.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
They were addressed to government officials: the attorney general and the secretary of labor of the United States; a Supreme Court justice; and two of the nation’s leading financiers.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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