How to Use financier in a Sentence

financier

noun
Definition of financiernext
  • A group of powerful financiers bought out the company.
  • In the old investors’ place, a new group of financiers has stepped in to front the cash for the BEG.
    — Michael Gartland, New York Daily News, 10 July 2024
  • The disgraced financier loomed large, and his bond with Ms. Maxwell was at the center of the case.
    — Benjamin Weiser, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2022
  • In the nineties, the billionaire financier Ronald Perelman became a friend and client of Gagosian’s.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Some of the film’s financiers worried that the film could start riots in the South, but Walter Mirisch refused to be warned off.
    — Claudia Luther, Chicago Tribune, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The Restless Billionaire, the 85-year-old financier isn’t like Robin Hood.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Schwartzel reports that the change was suggested by a Tencent financier on the movie.
    — Kira Bindrim, Quartz, 27 May 2022
  • The celebration came eight months after the court announced that the princess was engaged to the financier.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2023
  • As for investors and financiers, the risk has proved lower because.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 July 2024
  • Goldman, the go-to financier for the rich and powerful, has a lot riding on its consumer project.
    — Annamaria Andriotis, WSJ, 26 July 2022
  • Stepping aboard the same train into London, Piers, a well-to-do financier, is in a sour mood thanks to drama at home.
    — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2022
  • A week later, the Taliban financier’s name appeared again on the target list.
    — New York Times, 15 Apr. 2022
  • He was said to be No. 3 in Al Qaeda, a financier and planner of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
    — New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Peltz’s 25 desperate attempts to join Disney’s board should be seen as the last flicker of the flame of the flailing financier.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Bin Laden was the mastermind and financier behind the attacks.
    — Arkansas Online, 8 May 2022
  • Chris Sargeant, a financier from London, flew to New York last week specifically for the event.
    — New York Times, 21 July 2022
  • Idle Hour was built at the turn of the 20th century for railroad mogul and financier William Kissam Vanderbilt.
    — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 10 June 2022
  • The pandemic prompted wealthy financiers to flock here for the low taxes and good weather.
    — Michael Smith, Fortune, 3 Feb. 2024
  • They were both brought by lawyers that have represented many of the late financier’s accusers.
    — Khadeeja Safdar, WSJ, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The financier often made up stories to get out of meetings and visit galleries.
    — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
  • It was even harder given the code of silence still surrounding the dead financier.
    — Ava Benny-Morrison, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Glass grew up in Nowata, Okla., an oil-gushing boom town where his father made a fortune as a lawyer and financier.
    — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The blow-ups have led to financiers being banned, people jailed and banks slapped with fines for poor internal controls.
    — Bernadette Toh, TIME, 31 May 2024
  • Leon Black has for months claimed that a mysterious financier is engaged in a plot to destroy him.
    — Leon Black, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Citi, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America are also among the top five fossil financiers since 2016, the report found.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
  • His father, a financier, passed on to him a love of soccer, and the athletic uniforms of the ’80s and ’90s had an impact on Aka’s personal style.
    — Nicole Demarco Dalya Benor Caitie Kelly Juan A. Ramírez Monica Mendal Janet Siroto, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Most men are not business tycoons, high-flying financiers, movie moguls, movie stars . .
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Is Dermot Desmond, the real-estate mogul, financier and billionaire, the man to find the right formula?
    — Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 3 Apr. 2022
  • The best finish is a moist peanut financier served with sparkling mandarin orange sorbet and dabs of silky chocolate cremeaux.
    — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
  • As Wall Street financiers snapped up huge swaths of the nation’s rental housing market in recent years, the deals sailed through unchallenged.
    — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024

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