Dictionary:
financial |fəˈnan ch əl;
fī-|
adjectiveof or relating to finance : an independent financial
adviser.DERIVATIVESfinancially adverbTHE RIGHT
WORDWhat's the difference
between a financial crisis and a fiscal one? It all depends on who's having trouble with money and the scale of the
difficulties.Financial usually applies to money matters involving large sums or transactions of
considerable importance (: the
auction was a financial success).Fiscal refers specifically to the financial affairs of
a government, organization, or corporation (: the end of the company's fiscal year), whilepecuniary refers
to money matters of a more personal or practical nature and is preferred to financial when
money is being discussed on a smaller scale (: pecuniary motives; pecuniary assistance; pecuniary difficulties).Of all these words, monetary refers most directly to money as such and is often used when discussing the coinage,
distribution, andcirculation of money (: the European monetary system; the monetary unit of acountry).
Thesaurus:
financial
adjectiveour financial
picture has improved: monetary, money, economic,pecuniary, fiscal, banking, commercial, business, investment.
