financialized

English

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Adjective

financialized (comparative more financialized, superlative most financialized)

  1. Made into a financial issue; governed by or dependent on financial institutions.
    • 2013, Martin H. Wolfson, Gerald A. Epstein, The Handbook of the Political Economy of Financial Crises, page 384:
      Large multinationals have become financialized, that is, they are regularly active in financial markets and draw financial profits.
    • 2015, Chris Lehmann, ‘The Candidates’, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12:
      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.
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