financial
adjective OPAL W
/faɪˈnænʃl/, /fəˈnænʃl/
/faɪˈnænʃl/, /fəˈnænʃl/
[usually before noun]- connected with money and finance
- the world's major financial markets/institutions
- businesses in the financial sector
- Tokyo and New York are major financial centres.
- The company offers sophisticated financial services.
- financial support/aid/assistance
- an independent financial adviser
- The current financial crisis is global.
- His motives were purely financial.
Synonyms economiceconomic- financial
- commercial
- monetary
- budgetary
- economic connected with the trade, industry and development of wealth of a country, an area or a society:
- This book deals with the social, economic and political issues of the period.
- financial connected with money and finance:
- She had got into financial difficulties.
- Tokyo is a major financial centre.
- commercial connected with the buying and selling of goods and services.
- monetary (formal or finance) connected with money, especially all the money in a country:
- closer European monetary union
- budgetary (finance) connected with a budget (= the money available or a plan of how it will be spent).
- economic/financial/commercial/monetary/budgetary affairs/decisions
- the economic/financial/commercial/budgetary climate
- the economic/financial/commercial side of something
- a(n) economic/financial/commercial centre
Extra ExamplesTopics Moneyb1, Businessb1- She had got into financial difficulties.
- banks and other financial institutions
- She gave very sound financial advice.
- (Australian English, New Zealand English, informal) having money