high finance

1. 1.

   large and complex financial transactions (often used with the implication that those individuals or institutions who engage in them are unethical)

   Broaderfinance

Questions about high finance

What does high finance mean?

high finance means "large and complex financial transactions (often used with the implication that those individuals or institutions who engage in them are unethical)".

Is high finance a common word?

high finance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.