financialized

English

Alternative forms

• financialised (UK)

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.