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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The Journal also reported in May that a separate network run by an Iranian financier called Babak Zanjani made $850 million in transactions over two years on Binance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
About a month after that, the financier, tormented by fears of further investigation, died of apoplexy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 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
Code Pink is purportedly funded by Neville Roy Singham, a Shanghai-based financier who has directed hundreds of millions of dollars into a global network of nonprofits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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
It also carries the news of billionaire trader Chris Rokos's move to Greece, which it says comes "amid exodus of financiers fearful of tax rises".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
I’m bored of studios and indie financiers forcing filmmakers to stick to so-called bankable names.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Traditionally, its membership roster included local doctors, real-estate developers, entrepreneurs, attorneys and financiers such as Carl Icahn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
By the time Edmond arrived, in France in 1845, the Rothschilds were already a cross-Continental dynasty, serving as bankers to emperors, financiers of governments, and political architects of modern Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
The exciting synergy of institutional life in an all-purpose national metropolis was deemed less important than the dangerous corruptions likely to afflict a nexus of politicians and financiers.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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