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high finance

noun

  1. large-scale financial transactions or institutions.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of high finance1

First recorded in 1900–05

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Example Sentences

When the normally level-headed titans of high finance start to sell off in a frenzy, you know things are bad.

It has 32 members—and 16 of them come from the infinitesimally tiny portion of the planet that makes its living in high finance.

Conservatives will retort, "This just means you simpletons don't understand high finance."

He once quipped that the greatest innovation coming from the men of high finance was the ATM.

The Garden of Betrayalby Lee Vance An international thriller that races through the murky world of high finance.

But modern methods of high finance make it necessary to manipulate the details a little.

My thoughts, which had been diverted from my rash plunge into the intricacies of high finance, began to return to it.

So he becomes a "magnate," a man of "big business," and tends to high finance, manufacturing and merchandizing on a world-scale.

He had failed in the game as governed and modified by the rules of polite society and high finance.

Bivens, the new sensation in high finance, she had established as her star boarder in his absence!

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