financier
noun/faɪˈnænsiə(r)/, /fəˈnænsiə(r)/
/ˌfɪnənˈsɪr/
- a person who manages or lends large amounts of money for or to businesses or governmentsTopics Businessc2Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French, from finance, from finer ‘make an end, settle a debt’, from fin ‘end’, from Latin finis ‘end’ (in medieval Latin denoting a sum paid on settling a lawsuit).
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