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Finance

Finance Meaning & Definition
Finance Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Finance?

[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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Finance:

Related Terms | Find terms related to Finance: accounting | acknowledge | afford support | aid | angel | assets | assist | back | bank | banking | bankroll | bear | bear out | bear the expense | bear up | bolster | bolster up | business | buttress | capital | capitalize | cash | chip in | commerce | crutch | defray | defray expenses | economics | finances | foot the bill | fund | funds | give support | go Dutch | grubstake | help | hold up | holdings | honor a bill | invest in | investment | keep | lend support | maintain | money | patronize | pay for | pay the bill | pay the bills | pay the piper | pension | pension off | promote | prop | prop up | provide for | redeem | refinance | reinforce | resources | set up | shore | shore up | sponsor | stake | stand the costs | subsidize | subvene | subvention | subventionize | support | sustain | undergird | underwrite | upbear | uphold | upkeep | wealth | wherewithal

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

Finance In Webster's Dictionary

\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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