finance
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
finance /fʌɪˈnans, fɪ-, ˈfʌɪnans/
▶noun the management of large amounts of money, especially by governments or large companies.
■ monetary support for an enterprise.
■ (finances) the monetary resources and affairs of a state, organization, or person.
▶verb provide funding for.– origin ME (orig. in the sense ‘payment of a debt, ransom, etc.’): from OFr., from finer ‘settle a debt’, from fin (see fine2).
'finance' also found in these Oxford entries:
account
- accrue
- acquire
- acquisition accounting
- ACT
- actuary
- ad valorem
- AER
- affinity card
- agio
- annualized
- annuitant
- annuity
- APR
- ask
- asset
- asset-backed
- assured
- ATM
- backload
- balance
- balance sheet
- bancassurance
- bank bill
- bank draft
- banker's order
- bank rate
- base rate
- basis point
- basket
- bean counter
- bearer
- beta
- bill of exchange
- blank cheque
- bond
- bonus
- bottomry
- bounce
- bourse
- bp
- bridging loan
- budget
- building society
- bulldog bond
- buy-back
- call
- call money
- cap
- cap
