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JAY COOKE

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Overview

JAY COOKE (noun)
  The noun JAY COOKE has 1 sense:

1. United States financier who marketed Union bonds to finance the American Civil War; the failure of his bank resulted in a financial panic in 1873 (1821-1905)play

  Familiarity information: JAY COOKE used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


JAY COOKE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

United States financier who marketed Union bonds to finance the American Civil War; the failure of his bank resulted in a financial panic in 1873 (1821-1905)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Cooke; Jay Cooke

Instance hypernyms:

financier; moneyman (a person skilled in large scale financial transactions)


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