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Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : fi-nans, fahy-nans
Phonetic Transcription : fɪˈnæns, ˈfaɪ næns



Definition of finance

Origin :
  • 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.
  • noun economic affairs
  • verb offer loan money; set up in business
Example sentences :
  • On the contrary, he speedily inaugurated a new and brilliant era in finance.
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • He has a head for finance, your brother, and is quick in his calculations.
  • Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
  • A similar exaggerated view prevails as to the power of finance.
  • Extract from : « High Finance » by Otto H. Kahn
  • Finance, instead of avoiding publicity in all of its aspects, should welcome it and seek it.
  • Extract from : « High Finance » by Otto H. Kahn
  • There are a number of causes and for some of them finance cannot be absolved from responsibility.
  • Extract from : « High Finance » by Otto H. Kahn
  • All Paris was there, the Paris of literature, of finance and of pleasure.
  • Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola
  • Finally lost is the dominant position in the region of Finance.
  • Extract from : « Bremen Cotton Exchange » by Andreas Wilhelm Cramer
  • Her mission seemed, after all, a strange one with which to come to a leader of finance.
  • Extract from : « The Film of Fear » by Arnold Fredericks
  • That is what all the ways of commerce and finance and daily bread-getting were to Richling.
  • Extract from : « Dr. Sevier » by George W. Cable
  • It was his day off, and the Avignon Electric finance man was coming.
  • Extract from : « Cost of Living » by Robert Sheckley

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