finance Definition

finance
noun

1. Money affairs and the management of them.

Example: Government finance
Thesaurus: economics, money management, business, commerce, banking, accounting, stock market, trade, investment.
2. The money or funds needed or used to pay for something.
3. One's financial state.

Thesaurus: money, cash, budget, revenue, resources, assets, funds, income, wealth, capital.
Form: finances

verb

financed, financing
1. To provide funds for something.

Thesaurus: fund, pay for, back, underwrite, support, subsidize, set up, bail out, bankroll, guarantee, capitalize.

Etymology: 14c: from French finer to settle, from Latin finis an end.