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finance

[fi-nans, fahy-nans]
noun
  1. the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
  2. finances, the monetary resources, as of a government, company, organization, or individual; revenue.
verb (used with object), fi·nanced, fi·nanc·ing.
  1. to supply with money or capital; obtain money or credit for.
verb (used without object), fi·nanced, fi·nanc·ing.
  1. to raise money or capital needed for financial operations.

Origin of finance

1350–1400; Middle English finaunce < Anglo-French, Middle French finance, equivalent to fin(er) to end, settle, pay (see fine2) + -ance -ance
Related formsfi·nance·a·ble, adjectivepre·fi·nance, verb (used with object), pre·fi·nanced, pre·fi·nanc·ing.self-fi·nance, verb (used with object), self·-fi·nanced, self·-fi·nanc·ing.su·per·fi·nance, noun, verb, su·per·fi·nanced, su·per·fi·nanc·ing.un·der·fi·nance, verb (used with object), un·der·fi·nanced, un·der·fi·nanc·ing.un·fi·nanced, adjectivewell-fi·nanced, adjective
Can be confusedaccounting bookkeeping finance
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Related Words for financed

banking, economics, investment, business, commerce, underwrite, subsidize, support, back, fund, bankroll, sponsor, promote, guarantee, money, float, capitalize, stake, grubstake, patronize

Examples from the Web for financed

Contemporary Examples of financed

Historical Examples of financed

  • He financed more especially a Balinini chief called Haji Daman.

    End of the Tether

    Joseph Conrad

  • Coutts's, where Mark financed himself, was closed, and a sovereign was all that Mark had.

    A Great Man

    Arnold Bennett

  • These were found in our committee who have gathered these data most lovingly and financed this book.

  • Dunnan financed him, and moved in behind him, the same way Makann moved in behind the King.

    Space Viking

    Henry Beam Piper

  • Some of the businesses he financed were on the border line of respectability.

    Jack O' Judgment

    Edgar Wallace

British Dictionary definitions for financed

finance

noun
  1. the system of money, credit, etc, esp with respect to government revenues and expenditures
  2. funds or the provision of funds
  3. (plural) funds; financial condition
verb
  1. (tr) to provide or obtain funds, capital, or credit for
  2. (intr) to manage or secure financial resources

Word Origin for finance

C14: from Old French, from finer to end, settle by payment
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Word Origin and History for financed

finance

v.

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.

finance

n.

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.

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