financier

See also: Financier

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French financier.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.

Translations

person profiting from financial transactions

• Bulgarian: финанси́ст m (finansíst)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 財政家／财政家 (zh) (cáizhèngjiā), 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
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• German: Finanzier (de) m, Financier (de) m, Finanzierin f, Financierin f
• Irish: airgeadaí m
• Malayalam: ഫിനാൻസിയർ (phināṉsiyaṟ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: finansmann m

  Nynorsk: finansmann m

• Russian: финанси́ст (ru) m (finansíst), финанси́стка (ru) f (finansístka)
• Swedish: finansman c

company

• Finnish: rahoitusyhtiö, sijoitusyhtiö
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administrator

• Finnish: rahoitusjohtaja
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teacake

• Finnish: financier-leivos
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rich sauce

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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.

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Danish

Etymology

French financier

Noun

financier c (singular definite financieren, plural indefinite financiere)

1. (finance) financier

Declension

Declension of financier

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

Alternative forms

• finansier

Synonyms

• finansmand (male)/finanskvinde (female)

Derived terms

• finansiere

References

• “financier” in Den Danske Ordbog

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French financier.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fi‧nan‧cier

Noun

financier m (plural financiers, diminutive financiertje n)

1. (finance) financier, sponsor

Synonyms

• financierder
• sponsor

Verb

financier

1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of financieren
2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of financieren

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French

Etymology

finance +‎ -ier

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.nɑ̃.sje/

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

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

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

Noun

financier m (plural financiers, feminine financière)

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

Further reading

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