The phrase "financial engine" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It typically refers to a source or component of financial power or success. Example: "The tech company's app became the financial engine that drove their rapid growth."
"Opium is their financial engine," said Brig.
MTV remains the financial engine of Viacom.
When they got into the financial engine, all hell broke loose.
"Their bank was the financial engine that ran everything in this area".
IPG was once the financial engine seen as keeping the rest of HP flush.
And with that, an international financial engine kicks into gear, moving money across continents in the blink of an eye.
One of the top holdings in his fund is Financial Engines, an advisory firm that uses technology to offer portfolio management and advice to 401(k) investors.
Ten years ago the other publishing forms were still very healthy financial engines and the wait-and-see strategy was a sensible approach for many.
The performing rights societies are some of the industry's oldest financial engines, and they are trying to adapt to a digitized business that has spread far beyond radio and broadcast television, their bread and butter for decades.
The companies exert so much power because they are such financial engines in that part of the country – anyone who worked with BP basically said they couldn't talk to us.
The end of the Bloomberg administration will be the end of 12 years of generally pro-growth policies that favored the city's large financial engines (real estate and financial services) and smaller ones (health care, tourism and high-tech) with mixed results.
