financier
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financiers
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verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
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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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A spokesperson for Zanjani also previously told the Journal that the financier “has neither required nor relied upon any cryptocurrency exchange for the purpose of money laundering or sanction evasion.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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
Black appears in the Epstein files released by the justice department, which include photos, videos and investigative documents relating to the disgraced late financier.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Daisy Soros, wife of the harbor designer Paul Soros and sister-in-law of the financier George Soros, has been coming to Nantucket since the 1960s, an era when few women, new money or old, dressed up.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
“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
The judge gave the parties 10 days to provide information including details about the status of the project, its contractors and its financiers.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
But now that he has called in favors from Boeing, as well as other financiers of his show that include Toyota, Shell, United Airlines, Royal Caribbean, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Lyft and the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The original cast of subprime financiers had been sunk by the small fraction of the loans they made that they had kept on their books.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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