finance
/fɪˈnæns/ verb B1- To conduct, or procure money for, financial operations; manage finances.
- To manage financially; be financier for; provide or obtain funding for a transaction or undertaking. · His parents financed his college education.· He financed his home purchase through a local credit union.
He/she/it finances · Past financed · Past participle financed · -ing form financing
Verb forms
- Base form
- finance
- He/she/it
- finances
- Past
- financed
- Past participle
- financed
- -ing form
- financing
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Stocks and bonds, loans and mortgages, margins and securities—here was a world of finance, and there was no room in it for the human world or the world of nature.
The world of finance dwindled suddenly to a speck.
The whole question of the Netherland-Sumatra Company and of the colossal schemes of Baron Maupertuis are too recent in the minds of the public, and are too intimately concerned with politics and finance to be fitting subjects for this series of sketches.
“Yes; and more than that, he lets it to the Minister of Finance while he lives in a simple house.
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