Cooke

/kʊk/
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Other forms: Cookes

Definitions of Cooke
  1. noun
    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)
    synonyms: Jay Cooke
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    example of:
    financier, moneyman
    a person skilled in large scale financial transactions
  2. noun
    United States journalist (born in England in 1908)
    synonyms: Alfred Alistair Cooke, Alistair Cooke
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    journalist
    a writer for newspapers and magazines
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