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financialized

financialized adjective: made into a financial issue; governed by or dependent on financial institutions.

Adjective

financialized (comparative more financialized, superlative most financialized)

  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
    • 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

Forms of financialized

comparativemore financialized
superlativemost financialized
alternative formfinancialised

Questions about financialized

What does financialized mean?
Financialized means made into a financial issue; governed by or dependent on financial institutions.
What part of speech is financialized?
Financialized is an adjective.

Words near financialized in the dictionary

  1. financialising
  2. financialist
  3. financialists
  4. financialization
  5. financialize
  6. financialized
  7. financializes
  8. financializing
  9. financially
  10. financials
  11. financier

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