Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that engages in investing or raising large amounts of money.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An officer who is intrusted with the control of financial interests; one who regulates or manages the public revenues.
  • noun One skilled in financial operations, whether public, corporate, or individual; one who understands money matters.
  • noun In France, formerly, a receiver or farmer of the public revenues.
  • To conduct financial operations; act as a financier; finance; in a derogatory sense, to engage in financial scheming or irregular pecuniary transactions.
  • To act as financier for; manage or contrive ways and means for; finance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To conduct financial operations.
  • noun One charged with the administration of finance; an officer who administers the public revenue; a treasurer.
  • noun One skilled in financial operations; one acquainted with money matters.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who, as a profession, profits from large financial transactions.
  • noun A company that does the same.
  • noun A light, spongy teacake, usually based on almond flour or flavoring.
  • noun 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.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb conduct financial operations, often in an unethical manner
  • noun a person skilled in large scale financial transactions

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Borrowing from French financier.

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