Meaning of FINANCE
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- [n] the commercial activity of providing funds and capital
- [n] the management of money and credit and banking and investments
- [n] the branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets
- [v] obtain or provide money for; "Can we finance the addition to our home?"
- [v] sell or provide on credit
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| | See Also: | | back, banking, business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise, corporate finance, credit, direction, economic science, economics, financing, floatation, flotation, fund, funding, high finance, investing, investment, management, pay, political economy, refinance, seed | |
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\Fi*nance"\, n. [F., fr. LL. financia payment of money,
money, fr. finare to pay a fine or subsidy (cf. OF. finer to
finish, pay), fr. L. finis end. See {Fine}, n., {Finish}.]
1. The income of a ruler or of a state; revennue; public
money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used
in the plural for funds; available money; resources.
All the finances or revenues of the imperial crown.
--Bacon.
2. The science of raising and expending the public revenue.
``Versed in the details of finance.'' --Macaulay.
\Fi*nance"\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Financed}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Financing}.]
To conduct the finances of; to provide for, and manage, the
capital for; to financier.
Securing foreign capital to finance multitudinous
undertakings. --B. H.
Chamberlain.
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