financier
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
noun
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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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In a 2003 interview with Hello! magazine, Lord Snowdon named weekend guests such as the ballerina Margot Fonteyn, financier Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, comedian Peter Sellers, actor Sir John Mills, and author Edna O’Brien.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Laguna Beach real estate mogul Mohammad Honarkar was awarded $1.34 billion in a dispute with a local financier, who has been arrested on federal bank fraud charges in another case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
As Regan put it, once a client was interested and a salesperson needed Regan to “push him over the edge,” the financier would place a call with as little as 20 minutes’ notice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Fellow economists Marina Gertsberg, Ekaterina Volkova and I found that the disgraced financier effectively wired corporate America into a denser, more tightly interconnected network.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
In New York, the sisters arranged a magnetic healing session with multimillionaire financier and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
He’s earned the right to ask financiers and his building fan base for their trust.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Asian financiers in particular displayed clear worry "about real shortages of energy," according to those in the room.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
The real nuclear financiers are not in Washington.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 26, 2026
Over the past 40 years, an eclectic mix of financiers from Dubai to Taiwan invested hundreds of millions of dollars in developing the plane maker’s lightweight business jets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 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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