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Definition of Financier
1. Noun. A person skilled in large scale financial transactions.
Generic synonyms: Capitalist
Specialized synonyms: Banker, City Man, Dealer, Principal
Specialized synonyms: Baruch, Bernard Baruch, Bernard Mannes Baruch, Brady, Diamond Jim, Diamond Jim Brady, James Buchanan Brady, Cooke, Jay Cooke, Cosimo De Medici, Cosimo The Elder, Girard, Stephen Girard, Gould, Jay Gould, Gresham, Sir Thomas Gresham, Averell Harriman, Harriman, William Averell Harriman, Hopkins, Johns Hopkins, Andrew Mellon, Andrew W. Mellon, Andrew William Mellon, Mellon, J. P. Morgan, John Pierpont Morgan, Morgan, Morris, Robert Morris, Cecil J. Rhodes, Cecil John Rhodes, Cecil Rhodes, Rhodes, Haym Salomon, Salomon, Commodore Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt
2. Verb. Conduct financial operations, often in an unethical manner.
Definition of Financier
1. n. One charged with the administration of finance; an officer who administers the public revenue; a treasurer.
2. v. i. To conduct financial operations.
Definition of Financier
1. Noun. A person who, as a profession, profits from large financial transactions. ¹
2. Noun. A company that does the same. ¹
3. Noun. A light, spongy teacake, usually based on almond flour or flavoring. ¹
4. Noun. A traditional French (''Ragoût a la Financière'') or Piemontese (''Finanziera alla piemontese'') rich sauce or ragout, made with coxcomb, wattles, cock's testicles, chicken livers and a variety of other ingredients. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Financier
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Financier
Literary usage of Financier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Science of Finance: An Investigation of Public Expenditures and Public by Henry Carter Adams (1898)
"In judging of advantage and outlay, however, a provident financier will hold in mind
... A long series of questions present themselves to the financier who ..."
2. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by John Atkinson Hobson (1907)
"Relations between investor and financier. § 3. Need of the financial middleman.
§ 4. Earning capacity the true basis of Capitalisation. § 5. ..."
3. John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet by John Sherman (1895)
"It Is Not Well Received by Those Who Wished Immediate Resumption of Specie
Payments — Letter to " The financier " in Reply to a Charge That It Was a ..."
4. The Yale Review by Yale University, George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross (1894)
"THE financier OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES.1 THE finances of the North during the
Civil War center about Salmon P. Chase, the Secretary of the United States ..."
5. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1913)
"financier. Review. Nation. 95- 589-90. D. 19, Strauss. 11. Harp. W. 67: 10. Ja.
25. '13. Drawing. World, la: 300. Ap. '13. Triumphs of the bridge engineer. ..."
6. History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the by George Ticknor Curtis (1860)
"His remarkable talent for business, however, and his intimate knowledge of
financial subjects, led to his appointment as Assistant financier with Robert ..."
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