financier
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financiers
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verb (used with 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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They include real-estate executive Lee Millstein, hedge-fund honcho Ruben Kliksberg and financier Ronald Olin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
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
She later said she wished she had never met the late disgraced financier.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Rented from wealthy financier and merchant Robert Morris—who obligingly moved to another house on the same block to make way for the Washingtons—it would serve as both the president’s office and the official residence.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
Customers of Silicon Data’s indexes include hedge funds looking for data sources for their research and financiers providing loans that are backed by GPUs, the chips used for powering AI.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 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
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
One trillion dollars in losses had been created by American financiers, out of whole cloth, and embedded in the American financial system.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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