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Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs

75 3.2
A large American investment bank that gives financial services and advice to companies
  • proper noun
  • /ˈɡoʊldmən sɑːks/
: Goldman Sachs
  • Matt's over at Goldman Sachs.
  • Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan
  • Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley

Now we need to get into Morgan Stanley and we need to get into the Goldman Sachs downgrades.

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Examples

  • Goldman Sachs has estimated the cost of a remittance to be approximately one percent.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Today, Maribel Ledezma is vice president of Goldman Sachs in the Office of Global Leadership and Diversity.

  • And both of them within six months had found jobs with Goldman Sachs in New York.

  • The boss really does decide and Goldman Sachs goes for the top.

  • Seriously, I never should have left Goldman Sachs.

  • All the people in charge were from Goldman Sachs.

  • Fourteen billion went to Goldman Sachs.

  • The Greek government turned to Goldman Sachs, paying the firm $300 million to fix the books.

    Academic text (2010)
  • Interesting fact, considering that both Italy and Greece are currently ruled by two Goldman Sachs executives.

    Blog text (7)
  • Many recent graduates aspire to work at Goldman Sachs due to its prestigious reputation in investment banking.

Surface Forms

Morphology

Goldman + Sachs

This is a proper name composed of two surnames rather than a compositional phrase; knowing 'Goldman' and 'Sachs' (which are not lexical words here) does not indicate that the referent is a large investment bank. Proper names are arbitrary and do not transparently encode the company’s nature, so a B1 learner who only knows the constituents would not be able to derive the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Goldman Sachs is named after its founders: the banker Goldman and his partner Sachs, who put their last names together as the company name. So today Goldman Sachs means 'a large, well-known investment bank'.