financialized

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adjective

Made into a financial issue; governed by or dependent on financial institutions.

Scrabble 28

Meanings

adjectivefinancialized (comparative more financialized, superlative most financialized)

comparative more financialized · superlative most financialized · alternative financialised

  1. Made into a financial issue; governed by or dependent on financial institutions.

    Large multinationals have become financialized, that is, they are regularly active in financial markets and draw financial profits.

    2013, Martin H. Wolfson, Gerald A. Epstein, The Handbook of the Political Economy of Financial Crises, page 384
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    Nothing came of this last-ditch overture and Lehman went under in the fall of 2008, very nearly taking the financialised infrastructure of global capitalism with it.

    2015, Chris Lehmann, ‘The Candidates’, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12
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APA

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Chicago

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