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finance

finance

64 3.6
The study of how people and businesses manage money and investments
  • noun
  • /ˈfaɪnæns/
  • Specialized
: 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

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

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

A business that lends money to people or small businesses

5 4.2

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

3 6.2

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

corporate finance
  • Specialized
3 4.1

The decisions and plans a company makes about money and investments

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

1 3.7

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

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

1 5.5

A company that lends money to businesses like manufacturers or wholesalers

6.1

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

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
569 2.7
finance
  • Specialized
64 3.6
national bank
  • Specialized
29 3.1
local
242 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.