high finance
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of high finance
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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It was the early 2010s, when high finance could no longer ignore how low home prices had fallen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 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
"The jobs market remains strong, but inflation remains too high," finance minister Jeremy Hunt said after the data was published, a day ahead of his budget speech.
From Reuters ● Mar. 14, 2023
“Trust” is a love story pretending to be a tale of high finance, but Diaz is skeptical of the romance or Wall Street epic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
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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