high finance

noun

1. large-scale financial transactions or institutions.

Word History and Origins

Origin of high finance¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

The growing interface between high finance and lower-middle-class America was assumed to be good for lower-middle-class America.

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The Altar, a health club opening in New York this fall, is the brainchild of a group of founders with backgrounds in high finance and fashion.

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As time moved on and English top flight football came to be dominated by high finance - and United were able to generate more of it than anyone else - no-one remotely thought history might repeat itself.

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A man who spent most of his professional career in the unforgiving world of high finance, he was a senior figure in companies holding investment portfolios in the billions of pounds.

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"Even in the world of high finance, this court cannot endorse a proposition that finds a misstatement of at least $812 million dollars to be 'immaterial,'" he wrote.

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