financier

noun

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fi·nan·cier | \ ˌfi-nən-ˈsir

; fə-ˌnan-, ˌfī- \

Definition of financier

1 : one who specializes in raising and expending public moneys

2 : one who deals with finance and investment on a large scale

Examples of financier in a Sentence

A group of powerful financiers bought out the company.

Recent Examples on the Web One of the biggest stars in this white-hot corner of Wall Street is a 79-year-old financier who doesn’t tweet or court the Reddit daytrading crowd. — Veronica Dagher, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2021 Before his scam came to light in 2008, Madoff was relatively unknown as a behind-the-scenes Wall Street financier. — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 14 Apr. 2021 The financier Charles Schwab and his wife, Helen (No. 24), gave $65 million to address homelessness in San Francisco. — Star Tribune, 9 Feb. 2021 Graham was born in New York City in 1917 and was a teenager when her father, financier Eugene Meyer, bought The Washington Post in 1933. — Washington Post, 4 May 2021 Roosevelt established those bona fides by bringing a successful antitrust case against financier J. P. Morgan in 1904. — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 2 May 2021 Storybook’s history has at times read more like a financier’s sordid tale. — Anna Caplan, Dallas News, 16 Apr. 2021 Poilievre’s comments highlight the political minefield Macklem is navigating as his central bank becomes primary financier of Trudeau’s massive budget deficits. — Kait Bolongaro, Bloomberg.com, 15 Oct. 2020 Bernie Madoff, the financier from New York City who pleaded guilty to orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history, died Wednesday in federal prison. — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2021

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