financier
See also: Financier
English
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from French financier.
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /f(a)ɪˈnæn.sɪ.ə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /f(a)ɪnænˈsɪəɹ/
- Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Noun
editfinancier (plural financiers)
- A person who, as a profession, profits from large financial transactions.
- 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
- Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
- A company that does the same.
- One charged with the administration of finance; an officer who administers the public revenue; a treasurer.
- 1781, Edmund Burke, The Budget for the Year 1781:
- The English financier was obliged to raise new taxes to pay the interest of this immense sum ; the financier of France did no such thing
- A light, spongy teacake, usually based on almond flour or flavoring.
- 2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 273:
- ‘Excuse me, can we order some fresh financiers? I know we haven’t finished our mains yet but we’re in rather a hurry.’
- A traditional French (Ragoût à 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.
Translations
editperson profiting from financial transactions
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company
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administrator
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teacake
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rich sauce
Verb
editfinancier (third-person singular simple present financiers, present participle financiering, simple past and past participle financiered)
- (transitive, intransitive) To carry out financial transactions; to finance something.
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
- So time crept on, and the day arrived when Sturk must pay his rent, or take the ugly consequences. The day before he spent in Dublin financiering. It was galling and barren work.
Danish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editNoun
editfinancier c (singular definite financieren, plural indefinite financiere)
- (finance) financier
- Hyponyms: (male) finansmand, (female) finanskvinde
Declension
editDeclension of financier
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | financier | financieren | financiere | financierne |
genitive | financiers | financierens | financieres | financiernes |
Derived terms
editReferences
editDutch
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file) - Hyphenation: fi‧nan‧cier
Etymology 1
editBorrowed from French financier.
Noun
editfinancier m (plural financiers, diminutive financiertje n)
- (finance) financier, sponsor
- Synonyms: financierder, sponsor
Etymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
editfinancier
- inflection of financieren:
French
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /fi.nɑ̃.sje/
- Homophone: financiers
Audio: (file)
Adjective
editfinancier (feminine financière, masculine plural financiers, feminine plural financières)
Noun
editfinancier m (plural financiers, feminine financière)
- financier (person)
- financier (cake)
- Synonym: visitandine
- banker
Further reading
edit- “financier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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