Hypertext Webster Gateway: "finance"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Finance \Fi*nance"\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Financed}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Financing}.]
To conduct the finances of; to provide for, and manage, the
capital for; to financier.
Securing foreign capital to finance multitudinous
undertakings. --B. H.
Chamberlain.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Finance \Fi*nance"\, n. [F., fr. LL. financia payment of money,
money, fr. finare to pay a fine or subsidy (cf. OF. finer to
finish, pay), fr. L. finis end. See {Fine}, n., {Finish}.]
1. The income of a ruler or of a state; revennue; public
money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used
in the plural for funds; available money; resources.
All the finances or revenues of the imperial crown.
--Bacon.
2. The science of raising and expending the public revenue.
``Versed in the details of finance.'' --Macaulay.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
finance
n 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
v 1: obtain or provide money for; "Can we finance the addition to
our home?"
2: sell or provide on credit
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