finance

Pronunciation

• enPR: /fīnăns/
• IPA ^(key): /ˈfaɪnæns/ or /faɪˈnæns/ or /fɪˈnæns/

• Audio (UK)

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• Hyphenation: fi‧nance

Noun

Singular finance

Plural finances

1. (uncountable) Finance is activities related to banking and money, especially by government.

   The minister of finance announced that taxes would increase by 1% in May.

2. (plural) Your finances is the money that you have.

   She had managed to raise sufficient finances to enable her and her family to travel to Australia.

   The company's finances seem to be in good shape.

Verb

Plain form finance

Third-person singular finances

Past tense financed

Past participle financed

Present participle financing

1. (transitive) If you finance something, you provide money for it.

   The soccer team was partly financed by a local business.

   The bank is financing our car loan.

Related words

• financial
• financially
• financier
• financing