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Noun: finances  fu'nansuz [N. Amer], fInansiz [Brit]
  1. Assets in the form of money
    - funds, monetary resource, cash in hand, pecuniary resource
Noun: finance  fu'nans or fInans
  1. The commercial activity of providing funds and capital
     
  2. The branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets
     
  3. The management of money and credit and banking and investments
Verb: finance  fu'nans or fInans
  1. Obtain or provide money for
    "Can we finance the addition to our home?"
     
  2. Sell or provide on credit

See also: financial, financing, nonfinancial

Type of: assets, business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise, credit, direction, economic science, economics, management, pay, political economy

Encyclopedia: Finance

Finances

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