finance
/fɪˈnæns/ noun B2- The management of money and other assets.
- The science of management of money and other assets.
- Monetary resources, especially those of a public entity or a company. · Who's really in charge of a democracy's finances?
- 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. · Finance on all our new cars is provided by ABC Loans Ltd.
Plural finances
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So alarming did the state of my finances become, that I soon realized that I must either leave the metropolis and rusticate somewhere in the country, or that I must make a complete alteration in my style of living.
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.
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