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financier

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fin·an·cier  (fnn-sîr, f-nn-, fnn-)
n.
One who is occupied with or expert in large-scale financial affairs.

[French, from Old French, from finance, payment; see finance.]

financier
Noun
a person who is engaged in large-scale financial operations
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.financierfinancier - a person skilled in large scale financial transactions
capitalist - a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business)
banker - a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank
city man - a financier who works in one of the banks in the City of London
dealer, principal - the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account
Verb1.financier - conduct financial operations, often in an unethical manner
operate, run - direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan"
Translations
Spanish financier [faɪˈnænsɪəʳ] nfinanciero/a
French financier [faɪˈnænsɪəʳ] nfinancier m
German financier [faɪˈnænsɪəʳ] finance nFinanzier m
Italian financier [faɪˈnænsɪəʳ] nfinanziatore m

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He revolted at the bare idea of such a thing, and, besides, he hated the financier too cordially.
Well the greatest portion of the press were screeching in all possible tones, like a confounded company of parrots instructed by some devil with a taste for practical jokes, that the financier de Barral was helping the great moral evolution of our character towards the newly-discovered virtue of Thrift.
And so, once more, John fell to work discounting the delightful future: his first appearance in the family pew; his first visit to his uncle Greig, who thought himself so great a financier, and on whose purblind Edinburgh eyes John was to let in the dazzling daylight of the West; and the details in general of that unrivalled transformation scene, in which he was to display to all Edinburgh a portly and successful gentleman in the shoes of the derided fugitive.
 
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