high finance
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of high finance
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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This high finance is all in the name of “recovery.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
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.
From BBC • Sep. 24, 2024
"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.
From Reuters • Sep. 26, 2023
The soft-spoken 37-year-old was better known in his younger days for high-profile partying than for high finance.
From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2023
The practitioners of such acts, especially in the realm of high finance, inevitably offer this defense: “Everybody else was doing it.”
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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