Their authors promise that your spirit will be improved, your ambition honed, and your finances maximized by their advice.
The Republican National Committee lost control over the party messaging and finances.
Rain tells me stripping at Show Palace has finally helped her gain control of her finances.
The budget is a mess and officials in Trenton are whispering about a state takeover of the city's finances.
Those never-ending worries about your finances or job could be zapping your energy.
She might for a short time yet cut Linda's finances to the extreme limit.
That same day Morgan could not help broaching the subject of the finances.
You stick close to science and the professor and let me attend to the finances.
Hitherto we have been divided in our finances as no nation ever was before.
"It might depend a little upon the state of your finances," Bobby suggested.
"pecuniary resources," 1730, modeled on the French cognate, from plural of finance (n.).
late 15c., "to ransom;" see finance (n.). Sense of "to manage money" is recorded from 1827; that of "to furnish with money" is from 1866. Related: Financed; financing.
c.1400, "an end, settlement, retribution," from Middle French finance "ending, settlement of a debt" (13c.), noun of action from finer "to end, settle a dispute or debt," from fin (see fine (n.)). Cf. Medieval Latin finis "a payment in settlement, fine or tax."
The notion is of "ending" (by satisfying) something that is due (cf. Greek telos "end;" plural tele "services due, dues exacted by the state, financial means"). The French senses gradually were brought into English: "ransom" (mid-15c.), "taxation" (late 15c.); the sense of "management of money" first recorded in English 1770.
