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financial

adjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//faɪˈnæn.ʃəl//
  • United Kingdom/[faɪˈnæn.ʃɫ̩]/
  • United Kingdom//fɪˈnæn.ʃəl//
  • United Kingdom/[fɪˈnæn.ʃɫ̩]/
  • Canada//faɪˈnæn.ʃəl//

Related to finances.

adjective

  1. 1

    Related to finances.

    For financial reasons, we're not going to be able to continue to fund this program.

    A Cultural Revolution is a movement designed to preserve the political and financial power of a ruling elite by social rather than political or financial means.

  2. 2

    Having dues and fees paid up to date for a club or society.

    Jerry is a financial member of the club.

Etymology

Etymology tree English finance Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisder. Old French -ialder. Middle English -ial English -ial English financial From finance + -ial.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).