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financialisation

financialisation is the alternative form of financialization.

Meaning of financialization

Noun

financialization (uncountable)

  1. Conversion of intangible value into financial instruments.
    • Such growth would be fine if financialization really delivered on its promises—if financial firms made money by directing capital to its most productive uses, by developing innovative ways to spread and reduce risk.2009 July 17, Paul Krugman, “The Joy of Sachs”, in New York Times
  2. The act of making, or treating as, financial; bringing something into the sphere of finance.

Questions about financialisation

What is financialisation the alternative form of?
Financialisation is the alternative form of financialization.

Words near financialisation in the dictionary

  1. financial slave
  2. financial statement
  3. financial statements
  4. financial year
  5. financial years
  6. financialisation
  7. financialise
  8. financialised
  9. financialises
  10. financialising
  11. financialist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: financialisation (page history and authors); financialization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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