Necker

American  

[nek-er, ne-ker] / ˈnɛk ər, nɛˈkɛr /

noun

1. Jacques 1732–1804, French statesman, born in Switzerland.

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Necker British  

/ nɛkɛr, ˈnɛkə /

noun

1. Jacques (ʒak). 1732–1804, French financier and statesman, born in Switzerland; finance minister of France (1777–81; 1788–90). He attempted to reform the fiscal system and in 1789 he recommended summoning the States General. His subsequent dismissal was one of the causes of the storming of the Bastille (1789)

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Example Sentences

British billionaire Richard Branson wrote to Epstein in September 2013, after hosting him on Necker Island.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

As part of his travel empire, the British entrepreneur of Virgin Group fame owns Necker Island, a 74-acre slice of apparent paradise in the British Virgin Islands.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 16, 2026

They married 13 years later, on the private Necker Island in the Caribbean, which Branson had bought in the late 1970s for $180,000 and where they have lived for decades.

From Barron's • Nov. 26, 2025

“I mean, this isn’t Necker Island,” she added, alluding to Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson’s private island.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2024

Mdlle Curchod soon afterwards became the wife of Necker, the famous financier; and Gibbon and the Neckers frequently afterwards met on terms of mutual friendship and esteem.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various