financier

Borrowed from French financier.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /faɪˈnænsɪə/, /fɪˈnænsɪə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /fɪnænˈsɪəɹ/, /faɪnænˈsɪəɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burke to this entry?)

4. A light, spongy teacake, usually based on almond flour or flavoring.
5. 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.

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.

French financier

financier c (singular definite financieren, plural indefinite financiere)

1. (finance) financier

• finansier

• finansmand (male)/finanskvinde (female)

• finansiere

• “financier” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from French financier.

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• Hyphenation: fi‧nan‧cier

financier m (plural financiers, diminutive financiertje n)

1. (finance) financier, sponsor

• financierder
• sponsor

financier

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

finance +‎ -ier

• IPA^(key): /fi.nɑ̃.sje/

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

1. financial (of, or relating to, the world of money)

financier m (plural financiers, feminine financière)

1. financier (person)
2. financier (type of cake)
3. banker

• “financier” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).