Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or involving finance, finances, or financiers.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to finance or to revenue; pertaining or relating to money matters: as, financial operations.
Wiktionary
- adj. related to finances
- adj. having dues and fees paid up to date for a club or society (a financial member)
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pertaining to finance.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. involving financial matters
Etymologies
- finance + -al (Wiktionary)
Examples
““Polluter Pays” is the modern law of the land — in the US and throughout the modern, sustainable world — and thus financial products producers like AIG FP ’financial products’ must pay to clean up the damage their products created.”
Connecticut Attorney General Wants Numbers and Answers - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
“Similarly, the term "financial security" was better received than "financial freedom," by 85% to 15%.”
The Wall Street Journal: A Tip for Financial Advisers: When Possible, Use English
“The National Association of Personal Financial Advisors NAPFA is the organization whose advisors take a strict definition of the term financial advisor.”
“ATHENS Reuters - 'Contagion' is the label financial markets use for the economic spread of the Greek crisis.”
“But perhaps the term financial services is misleading in this context.”
“James Murdoch's reply is bordering on incomprehensible, using the phrase "financial quantum", but he says that there was at the time of the payment - 2008 - no reason to believe that there was any more to the story than had been uncovered, and was made "within the authorities as I understood it".”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Champlain, which has about 2,000 undergraduates and places a heavy emphasis on training students for work in careers including video game design and digital forensics, doesn't actually use the term financial literacy.”
“And imposing the new regulations is apt to spawn more of what some people call financial engineering, and what I call financial origami -- the ancient Japanese art of folding paper into novel and intriguing shapes.”
The Huffington Post: Brendan Moynihan: Wall Street Business Model as Financial Origami
“The side of the health of this and all future generations, or the side of those who would exploit the gaps in our environmental law for short term financial gain.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Kieschnick: President Obama, Look Out Your Window!
“Surowiecki's prescription is to establish what he calls the financial equivalent of driver's ed.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘financial’.
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BUDG - general terms
Budgetese - not a sexy topic but a very comprehensive list of words and collocations used in EU circles. Budgeting experts please comment and expand.
heading, across-the-board ..., emergency reserve, frontload, mopping-up, performance reserve, positive margin, negative margin, public finances, structural operat..., administrative ex..., management of EU ... and 657 more...
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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abound, technology, branch of knowled..., prognosticate, automaton, matron, an older married ..., realm, special field of ..., kingdom, annals, historical records and 981 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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EU Buzz - 100 most active collocation...
The 100 most frequent constituents of EU collocations. People working for the EU are able to complete any of these words to a multiple-word expression with ease. Try it out if you are one! For a gr...
accession, acquis, act, action, agenda, agreement, aid, area, assistance, association, base, budget and 88 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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ESL Academic Word List
This is a list of academic words for students learning English as a Second or Foreign Language. It includes 570 word families that often appear in academic texts. It does not include words that are...
collapse, depression, colleagues, invoked, levy, nonetheless, likewise, so-called, ongoing, conceived, forthcoming, integrity and 558 more...
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savage215's Words
pipe, yankee, knickerbocker, tennis, plasma, magma, volcano, car, truck, television, tv, word and 445 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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EU - What was Joao talking about in 2...
The 100 most frequent words in Joao Barroso's "State of the European Union" address in September 2011
act, adopted, already, approach, area, bank, believe, billion, bonds, built, capital, citizens and 87 more...
Tweets
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