- 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 economiceconomicfinancial ▪ commercial ▪ monetary ▪ budgetaryThese words all describe activities or situations that are connected with the use of money, especially by a business or country.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.
- She had got into financial difficulties.
- Tokyo is a major financial centre.
- closer European monetary union
- 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.
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- (Australian English, New Zealand English, informal) having money
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