"Financials" Not in OED

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Wed Jun 29 21:38:45 UTC 2011


I notice that "financial" as a noun, usually appearing in the plural to mean "financial information or data about a company, as balance sheets and price-earnings ratio" (www.dictionary.com), does not appear in OED or Merriam-Webster.

Fred Shapiro

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