finance
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English finaunce, from Anglo-Norman, Middle French finance, from finer (“to pay ransom”) (whence also English fine (“to pay a penalty”)), from fin (“end”), from Latin fīnis.
Original English sense that appeared c. 1400 was “ending”. The sense of “ending or satisfying a debt” originated from French influence: in the sense of “ransom” appeared in the mid 15th century, in the sense of “taxation” appeared in the late 15th century. In the sense of “manage money” first recorded c. 1770.
Inflected forms:
form: finances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: finances
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: financing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: financed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: financed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The management of money and other assets.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And statesmen as well ought to know these things; for a state is often as much in want of money and of such devices for obtaining it as a household, or even more so; hence some public men devote themselves entirely to finance.
Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
gloss: The science of management of money and other assets.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Monetary resources, especially those of a public entity or a company.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
uncountable
examples: Who's really in charge of a democracy's finances?
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Finance on all our new cars is provided by ABC Loans Ltd.
gloss: To conduct, or procure money for, financial operations; manage finances.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To pay ransom.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
gloss: To manage financially; be financier for; provide or obtain funding for a transaction or undertaking.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His parents financed his college education.
He financed his home purchase through a local credit union.
Therefore, when assets are examined together with other problems, such as one-sided contracts or delays in payment, the argument for financing construction projects is substantially weakened.
2000, G. Colombo, Sanctions and remedies in cases of illegal financing of political parties, Trading in Influence and the Illegal Financing of Political Parties, Third European Conference of Specialised Services in the Fight against Corruption, page 64,
Indeed, it is a crime to finance or make contributions in any form to political parties, their factions, parliamentary groups, i.e. members of the Italian parliament (if they are Italian) and the European parliament, regional, provincial and town councillors, candidates in such offices, party leaders: […] .
This is not a historical novel yet it is in a sense historical and contained within this book is a true story of how America was financed.
gloss: To extort ransom from.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
Related words: financier
Derived words: antifinance
climate finance
cofinance
decentralized finance
financeable
finance charge
financer
financescape
financial
financialist
financially
financist
finanscape
FinOps
fintech
geofinance
high finance
megafinance
microfinance
neurofinance
nonfinance
nonfinancial
overfinance
prefinance
structured finance
technofinance
tribunal of first instance
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