Crossword clues for financier
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Financier \Fin`an*cier"\ (?; 277), n. [Cf. F. financier.]
One charged with the administration of finance; an officer who administers the public revenue; a treasurer.
--Burke.One skilled in financial operations; one acquainted with money matters.
Financier \Fin`an*cier"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Financiered; p. pr. & vb. n. Financiering.] To conduct financial operations.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "one concerned with finances" (especially public), from French financier (16c.), from finance (see finance (n.)). Sense of "capitalist, one skilled in financial operations" is first recorded 1867.
Wiktionary
n. A person who, as a profession, profits from large financial transactions.
WordNet
n. a person skilled in large scale financial transactions [syn: moneyman]
v. conduct financial operations, often in an unethical manner
Wikipedia
A financier (; ) is a person who makes their living from investments, typically involving large sums of money and usually involving private equity and venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, corporate finance, investment banking, or large-scale asset management. The term is French, and derives from finance or payment.
A financier today can be someone who makes their living from investing in up-and-coming or established companies and businesses. A financier makes money through this process when his or her investment is paid back with interest, from part of the company's equity awarded to them as specified by the business deal, or a financier can generate income through commission, performance, and management fees.
A financier (pronounced fee-nahn-see-AY) is a small French cake. The financier is light and moist, similar to sponge cake, and usually contains almond flour, crushed or ground almonds, or almond flavoring. The distinctive feature of the recipe is beurre noisette. Other ingredients include egg whites, flour, and powdered sugar. Financiers are baked in shaped molds, usually small rectangular loaves similar in size to petits fours. In terms of texture, it is springy with a crisp, eggshell-like exterior.
The name financier is said to derive from the traditional rectangular mold, which resembles a bar of gold. Another theory says that the cake became popular in the financial district of Paris surrounding the Paris stock exchange.
Financier pans are traditionally rectangular, but other shapes are common.
Usage examples of "financier".
One was to Morton Selwood, from Bob Beverly, telling the financier that the Aureole Mine was found and was as rich as anticipated.
We must not forget the financier Bretonvilliers, who about the year 1657 determined to become a bibliophile, and so far succeeded that some of his local books on Lorraine were purchased for the National Library.
The few words, in the plane, of the explorer, Vonier, and the financier, Carberry, over some of their theories.
Vonier had had good reason for his admiration for and his disagreement with Carberry, the financier, over a treatise Carberry had written.
Thus did the first through the third utter coarse comments on the effete incapacity of Ozarine financiers to handle manly drink as compared to the stalwart sons of Pryggian soil.
The financiers, Bruck Stiffen, Horul Rinnesict, Grate Chizev of Letheras, Hepar the Pleaser, of Trate.
The obscure inventor and the important financier were to appear in court before Judge Hancock Noy, the elderly jurist before whom the case had been argued.
Republic remains as a unifying cant, a test of orthodoxy of as little practical significance there as the communism of Jesus and communion with Christ in Christendom, while beneath this creed a small oligarchy which has attained power by its profession does its obstinate best, much hampered by the suspicion and hostility of the Western financiers and politicians, to carry on a series of interesting and varyingly successful experiments in the socialization of economic life.
He had begun life as an obscure financier by lending small sums of money to workmen at usurious interest.
Instead of the broad-faced financier, he had become an ominous figure from which Walder instinctively shrank.
One could almost hear the tittering laughter of women: berouged strumpets, the storytellers leered, playthings of Yankee financiers, scarlet women who had packed their trunks with fine dresses they expected to wear at dances in Richmond.
Peter Pett, the well-known financier, on Riverside Drive is one of the leading eyesores of that breezy and expensive boulevard.
The above, in substance, was the doctrine of Alexander Hamilton, the ablest practical financier and economist that ever lived, certainly without a rival in this country.
Ladin eventually enjoyed a strong financial position in Afghanistan, thanks to Saudi and other financiers associated with the Golden Chain.
Dashing for the door to the outer office, the portly financier ripped it open, to see Atlee entering with Pelwin.