"Financials" Not in OED

[Dan Goncharoff]

I do not recall ever seeing the word in the singular.
DanG


On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>wrote:

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> 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.
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> Fred Shapiro
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