jay cooke

1. 1.

   United States financier who marketed Union bonds to finance the American Civil War; the failure of his bank resulted in a financial panic in 1873 (1821-1905)

   SynonymsCooke

   Broaderfinancier

Questions about jay cooke

What does jay cooke mean?

jay cooke means "United States financier who marketed Union bonds to finance the American Civil War; the failure of his bank resulted in a financial panic in 1873 (1821-1905)".

What is another word for jay cooke?

Close synonyms include Cooke. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jay cooke a common word?

jay cooke is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.