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financier
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Financier \Fin`an*cier"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Financiered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Financiering .] To conduct financial operations.
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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 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person skilled in large scale financial transactions [syn: moneyman ] v. conduct financial operations, often in an unethical manner
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE corporate ▪ Five months ago, 32-year-old Richard Simpson was a corporate financier with merchant bank Morgan Grenfell. ▪ A battle between the traders and the corporate financiers caused the firm to collapse in early ...
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.