finance
IPA: fʌnˈæns
noun
- The management of money and other assets.
- The science of management of money and other assets.
- (usually in the plural) Monetary resources, especially those of a public entity or a company.
- The provision of a loan, payment instalment terms, or similar arrangement, to enable a customer to purchase an item without paying the full amount straight away.
verb
- (intransitive) To conduct, or procure money for, financial operations; manage finances.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To pay ransom.
- (transitive) To manage financially; be financier for; provide or obtain funding for a transaction or undertaking.
- (transitive, obsolete) To extort ransom from.
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Examples of "finance" in Sentences
- One of the most difficult things in finance is for a depreciated currency to recover the former value.
- There needs to be new avenues to direct long-term finance into small and medium-sized enterprise and infrastructure.
- The package is viewed in Copenhagen as a sign of goodwill on longer-term finance, which is a core part of an overall deal for rolling back climate change under a post-2012 planet-wide pact.
- For example, someone who has come up through finance and wants to move into manufacturing, how can they show their company that what they have worked on in finance is applicable to what they want to do in [another area]?
- If you are very well-educated and very well-connected, if you're at the right place at the right time, if you are in finance, particularly, or if you are a CEO, if you are a top executive of a big company, you are doing marvelously well.
- He has conducted the king's affairs in a manner so contrary to that of his predecessors that he is at this moment suspected by the clergy, hateful to the grandees of the state, hounded to the death by the heads of finance (_la haute finance_), dishonored amongst the magistracy.
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