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financial | pru |

As an adjective financial

is related to finances.

As a proper noun Pru is

Prudential plc, a financial services company based in the United Kingdom.

financial

English

Adjective

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  • Related to finances.
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    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
  • Having dues and fees paid up to date for a club or society.

    • Usage notes

    Not to be confused with (fiscal), which means more narrowly “pertaining to a treasury, particularly to government spending and revenue”, rather than to money generally.

    Derived terms

    * financial market * financial year * financial regulation

    Related terms

    * finances * financier

    See also

    * fiscal

    pru

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , a financial services company based in the United Kingdom.
  • * 1991 , The Economist
    • So, against its original aims in buying the firm — but convinced by Mr Ball that this was the direction in which to go — the Pru followed.
  • * 1995 , Kathleen Sharp, In Good Faith
    • Also during the 1990s, the Pru aggressively jumped into the group insurance business, the purchase by companies of insurance policies for groups of workers.
  • * 2006 , Frances Brassington, Stephen Pettitt, Principles of marketing
    • In B2B situations where The Pru and Equitable Life jointly provide products, the business has tended to shift towards The Pru.

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