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financial

fi·nan·cial

financial

 
 
pronunciation:
f naen shl
features:
Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
part of speech: adjective
definition: of or pertaining to money or those who deal in finance and credit.
The couple had gotten into financial difficulty and needed a loan from the bank.They decided to use a financial adviser to help them decide how to invest their money.New York's financial district is centered around Wall Street.
similar words:
business, capital
Word Combinations  About this feature
(adj.)financial + noun accounting, advice, adviser, advisor, aid, analyst, arrangement, asset, assistance, audit, auditor, backer, backing, bailout, burden, capital, collapse, commitment, compensation, consideration, constraint, consultant, contribution, counseling, crisis, dealing, difficulty, disaster, disclosure, distress, firm, footing, fraud, gain, hardship, help, incentive, independence, institution, instrument, investment, investor, literacy, management, market, meltdown, obligation, officer, package, panic, penalty, planner, planning, provider, regulation, regulator, reporting, rescue, resource, responsibility, reward, ruin, scandal, sector, service, situation, stability, stake, statement, strain, strait, success, support, transaction, trouble, turmoil, well-being, woe, worry [See all][See only the most frequent]
derivation: financially (adv.)
Word Parts  About this feature
The word financial contains the following part:
-al2, -ial, -ual Latin adjective-forming suffix that means pertaining to
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The suffix -al2, -ial attaches primarily to nouns (national , environmental ) but sometimes to Latin or Greek roots (final , capital , comical ) to form adjectives. See also -ar1.