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Definition of High finance
1. Noun. Large and complex financial transactions (often used with the implication that those individuals or institutions who engage in them are unethical).
Lexicographical Neighbors of High Finance
Literary usage of High finance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the National Institute of Social Sciences by National Institute of Social Sciences (U.S.) (1917)
"high finance BY OTTO H. KAHN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT ANNUAL DINNER, ... indeed of "high
finance," and that they should approach the subject calmly and ..."
2. Our Economic and Other Problems: A Financier's Point of View by Otto Hermann Kahn (1920)
"... high finance JL HE term "high finance" derives its origin from the French "haute
finance," which in France as elsewhere in Europe designates the most ..."
3. The Story of a Page: Thirty Years of Public Service and Public Discussion in by John Langdon Heaton (1913)
"... ALTON BROOKS PARKER 1904 How Parker Became a "Favorite Son"—high finance and
Practical Politics Take Possession of His Campaign—Parker's Gold Telegram ..."
4. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1907)
"If Harriman, Rogers, Rockefeller, Gould, Still- man are professors of 'high
finance,' they are practitioners of low morality. They were trustees of other ..."
5. The Story of British Diplomacy: Its Makers and Movements by Thomas Hay Sweet Escott (1908)
"... VIII HIGH POLITICS AND high finance Sir James Bland Burges, the First Foreign
Under-Secretary—The State of the Foreign Office on his entering it—George ..."
6. The Canadian Banking System by Joseph French Johnson (1910)
"FIRST OUTBREAK OF high finance. One other large bank has been in trouble ...
It was established in 1903 and was managed by an artist in "high finance," the ..."
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