financier

See also: Financier

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French financier.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f(a)ɪˈnæn.sɪ.ə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /f(a)ɪnænˈsɪəɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Noun

Financiers (teacake)

financier (plural financiers)

1. 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.

2. A company that does the same.
3. 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

4. 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.’

5. 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

person profiting from financial transactions

• Bulgarian: финанси́ст m (finansíst)
• Catalan: financer m, financera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 財政家／财政家 (zh) (cáizhèngjiā), 金融家 (zh) (jīnróngjiā)

• Czech: finančník m
• Danish: financier c, finansmand c (male), finanskvinde c (female)
• Finnish: rahoittaja (fi), sijoittaja (fi)
• French: financier (fr) m, financière (fr) f
• Galician: financieiro m
• German: Finanzier (de) m, Financier (de) m, Finanzierin f, Financierin f
• Irish: airgeadaí m
• Kazakh: қаржыгер (qarjyger)
• Malayalam: ഫിനാൻസിയർ (phināṉsiyaṟ)
• Manx: argideyr m, argidagh m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: finansmann m

  Nynorsk: finansmann m

• Romanian: om de finanțe (ro) m
• Russian: финанси́ст (ru) m (finansíst), финанси́стка (ru) f (finansístka)
• Swedish: finansman (sv) c
• Ukrainian: фінанси́ст m (finansýst), фінанси́стка f (finansýstka)
• Welsh: ariannwr m

company

• Finnish: rahoitusyhtiö, sijoitusyhtiö

administrator

• Finnish: rahoitusjohtaja

teacake

• Finnish: financier-leivos

rich sauce

Verb

financier (third-person singular simple present financiers, present participle financiering, simple past and past participle financiered)

1. (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

Alternative forms

• finansier

Etymology

From French financier.

Noun

financier c (singular definite financieren, plural indefinite financiere)

1. (finance) financier

   Hyponyms: (male) finansmand, (female) finanskvinde

Declension

Declension of financier

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	financier	financieren	financiere	financierne
genitive	financiers	financierens	financieres	financiernes

Derived terms

• finansiere

References

• “financier” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: fi‧nan‧cier

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French financier.

Noun

financier m (plural financiers, diminutive financiertje n)

1. (finance) financier, sponsor

   Synonyms: financierder, sponsor

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

financier

1. inflection of financieren:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

French

Etymology

From finance +‎ -ier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.nɑ̃.sje/
• Homophone: financiers

• Audio

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Adjective

financier (feminine financière, masculine plural financiers, feminine plural financières)

1. financial

Noun

financier m (plural financiers, feminine financière)

1. financier (person)
2. financier (cake)

   Synonym: visitandine

3. banker

Further reading

• “financier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.