Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun jay_cooke

1 sense of jay cooke

Sense 1
Cooke, Jay Cooke -- (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))
       INSTANCE OF=> financier, moneyman -- (a person skilled in large scale financial transactions)