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finance

finance

244 3.6
The study of how people and businesses manage money and investments
  • noun
  • /ˈfaɪnæns/
  • Specialized
translation icon : finanzas
  • The company's finance team is responsible for managing budgets and investments effectively.
  • personal finance
  • managerial finance
  • a finance course

That is HR, that is finance, that's legal.

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Examples

  • And I work in finance at the bank.

  • Schumer, a junior member of the Finance Ministry, spoke up for the first time.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • But for me, finance is the language of business.

  • And that takes us back to technology, finance and policy.

  • You can teach business finance at the college.

  • A significant positive relationship between level of income and personal finance knowledge was found.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Overall, results from this study are of value and add to the personal finance and college education literature.

    Academic text (2011)
  • I wanted to compare jobs in finance with jobs in other fields.

  • Participants also completed a personal finance quiz to assess their financial knowledge.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The first section examines the importance of global finance to the state as a tool to achieve policy objectives.

    Academic text (2008)

Compounds

72 4.2

A government official who manages a country's money, taxes and spending

A government person who manages a country's money, taxes, and spending

A group of people who decide about an organization's money

A business that lends money to people or small businesses

3 6.2

Large, complicated money deals that happen between big banks, companies, and governments

corporate finance
  • Specialized
2 4.1

The decisions and plans a company makes about money and investments

1 3.7

A business that lends money to people who cannot get loans from banks

6.1

Company owned by a maker that gives loans to dealers or buyers to buy its products

5.5

A company that lends money to businesses like manufacturers or wholesalers

An agency of the World Bank Group that gives money to private companies and guarantees loans to support development

Advice on managing your own money, for example saving and budgeting

sales finance company
  • Specialized
6.0

A company that buys monthly payment agreements from stores and collects payments from customers

How Influential

Wall Street
  • Literature
546 2.7
finance
  • Specialized
244 3.6
national bank
  • Specialized
4 3.1
local
197 1.2

Surface Forms

finance singular
finances plural

Etymology

Finance comes from the Latin root finis, which meant 'end' or 'to finish', because paying a debt was a way to end it. We see the same root in English words like finish and final, so studying finance is about managing money and closing accounts.