Definition of "finance minister" []

• The minister responsible for state finances (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• ""This is a important moment" for Europe, stressed France's finance minister Christine Lagarde, with Austria's Josef Proll labelling it "the biggest challenge since the euro's creation.""
• ""We will do whatever is necessary," Spanish finance minister Elena Salgado, chairing the EU crisis talks, had insisted beforehand, with Anders Borg of non-euro Sweden saying that "we cannot afford disappointment with the markets.""
• "In that same year he was asked to become finance minister in the newly formed center-socialist government of Austria."