finance

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search
See also:financé

English

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

FromMiddle Englishfinaunce,fromAnglo-Norman,Middle Frenchfinance,fromfiner(“to pay ransom”)(whence alsoEnglishfine(“to pay a penalty”)), fromfin(“end”),fromLatinfīnis.[1][2] Original English sense that appeared c. 1400 was “ending”. The sense of “ending or satisfying a debt” originated from French influence: in the sense of “ransom” appeared in the mid 15th century, in the sense of “taxation” appeared in the late 15th century. In the sense of “manage money” first recorded c. 1770.[1]

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key):/ˈfaɪnæns/,/faɪˈnæns/,/fɪˈnæns/
  • Audio(Southern England):(file)
  • Hyphenation:fi‧nance
  • Rhymes:-æns

Noun

[edit]

finance(countableanduncountable,pluralfinances)

  1. Themanagementofmoneyand otherassets.
    • 4th centuryBCE,Aristotle,Politics,volume book I, part XI; republished as John Alexander Smith, William David Ross, transl.,The works of Aristotle translated into English,volume10,1908:
      And statesmen as well ought to know these things; for a state is often as much in want of money and of such devices for obtaining it as a household, or even more so; hence some public men devote themselves entirely tofinance.
    • 2013June 1, “End of the peer show”,inThe Economist,volume407,number8838,page71:
      Financeis seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
  2. The science of management of money and other assets.
  3. (usually in theplural)Monetaryresources,especially those of apublicentityor acompany.
    Who's really in charge of a democracy'sfinances?
  4. The provision of a loan, payment instalment terms, or similar arrangement, to enable a customer to purchase an item without paying the full amount straight away.
    Financeon all our new cars is provided by ABC Loans Ltd.

Hyponyms

[edit]

Derived terms

[edit]
[edit]

Translations

[edit]
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked

Verb

[edit]

finance(third-person singular simple presentfinances,present participlefinancing,simple past and past participlefinanced)

  1. (intransitive)Toconduct,orprocuremoney for,financialoperations; managefinances.
  2. (intransitive,obsolete)To payransom.
  3. (transitive)To managefinancially;befinancierfor; provide or obtain funding for a transaction or undertaking.
    Synonym:fund
    His parentsfinancedhis college education.
    Hefinancedhis home purchase through a local credit union.
    • 1995,A. D. F. Price,FinancingInternational Projects‎[1],page 3:
      Therefore, when assets are examined together with other problems, such as one-sided contracts or delays in payment, the argument forfinancingconstruction projects is substantially weakened.
    • 2000,G. Colombo,Sanctions and remedies in cases of illegalfinancingof political parties,Trading in Influence and the IllegalFinancingof Political Parties,Third European Conference of Specialised Services in the Fight against Corruption,page 64,
      Indeed, it is a crime tofinanceor make contributions in any form to political parties, their factions, parliamentary groups, i.e. members of the Italian parliament (if they are Italian) and the European parliament, regional, provincial and town councillors, candidates in such offices, party leaders:[…].
    • 2011,Thomas W. Dombroski,How America WasFinanced,page xi:
      This is not a historical novel yet it is in a sense historical and contained within this book is a true story of how America wasfinanced.
  4. (transitive,obsolete)Toextortransom from.

Derived terms

[edit]
verbs derived from “finance”

Translations

[edit]
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
  1. ↑1.01.1Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “finance”,inOnline Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ^“finance”, inThe American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language,4th edition, Boston, Mass.:Houghton Mifflin,2000,→ISBN.
  • “finance”,inOneLook Dictionary Search.
  • "finance"in theKernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version),K Dictionaries limited, 2000-2006.

Further reading

[edit]

Czech

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

BorrowedfromGermanFinanzen.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

financefpl(related adjectivefinanční)

  1. finances

Declension

[edit]
Declension offinance(pl-only soft feminine)
plural
nominative finance
genitive financí
dative financím
accusative finance
vocative finance
locative financích
instrumental financemi
[edit]

Further reading

[edit]
  • “finance”,inPříruční slovník jazyka českého(in Czech),1935-1957
  • “finance”,inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého(in Czech),1960–1971, 1989
  • “finance”,inInternetová jazyková příručka(in Czech)

Esperanto

[edit]

Adverb

[edit]

finance

  1. financially

French

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

FromOld Frenchfiner(“to pay”)+-ance.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

financef(pluralfinances)

  1. finance

Derived terms

[edit]

Descendants

[edit]
  • →Danish:finans
  • →Norwegian Bokmål:finans
  • →Norwegian Nynorsk:finans

Further reading

[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=finance&oldid=81461162"