financialとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /faɪˈnænʃəl/, /fɪˈnænʃəl/

形容詞

financial (not comparable)

1. Related to finances.

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

   • 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:

     Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. […] Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.

   • 2019 January 18, Charles Hugh Smith, The West's Descent into 'Cultural Revolution'‎^[1]:

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

   Jerry is a financial member of the club.

使用する際の注意点

Not to be confused with fiscal, which means more narrowly “pertaining to a treasury, particularly to government spending and revenue”, rather than to money generally.

派生語

• financial market
• financial year
• financial regulation

関連する語

• finances
• financier