a. [f. as prec. + -(I)AL.]
1. Of, pertaining, or relating to finance or money matters. Financial year: the annual period for which accounts are made up.
1769. Burke, State of Nation, Wks. 1808, II. 112. I shall make no objections whatsoever, logical or financial, to this reasoning.
1812. G. Chalmers, Dom. Econ. Gt. Brit., 101–2. While taxes were, without rigour, collected from annual income, and not from productive capital, a financial operation was performed, in 1716, which gradually relieved the embarrassments of the State, and gave fresh vigour to circulation, that energetic principle of commercial times.
1861. Lincoln, in Raymond, Life, 168. The financial year ending on the 30th of June 1861.
1882. Miss Braddon, Mt. Royal, I. i. 16. She had hardly ever given a thought to her financial position.
2. Of a member in a society: That pays (his subscription), ‘paying’ as opposed to ‘honorary.’ Also, that is not in arrear with his payments.
1892. Daily News, 29 Feb., 5/5. The Miners’ Federation … contains in round numbers 180,000 paying or ‘financial’ members, as they are called, among the ‘bottom workers.’
Hence Financially adv., in relation to financial matters, from a financial point of view.
1795. Burke, Thoughts on Scarcity, Wks. 1808, VII. 414. I consider therefore the stopping of the distillery, œconomically, financially, commercially, medicinally, and in some degree, morally too, as a measure rather well meant than well considered.
1864. Bp. of Lincoln, Charge, 5. Financially, the diminution of grants received … has not been … great.
1882. Macm. Mag., XLVI. 439/2. Progress in this respect [public works] must be attempted only when financially safe.
