Synonyms:
finance
Meaning: the commercial activity of providing funds and capital
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
finance
Meaning: obtain or provide money for; "Can we finance the addition to our home?"
Usage examples
The Finance Minister could have formed no conception of the profound subtlety of his revenge.
He wants a rich wife to finance his plans, and Medora is simply a good advertisement as a convert."
Secular and religious education had effaced the throat-grappling instinct, or else firm finance held in check the passions.
She was a very clever teacher and a very incompetent business woman, so that her small school, of excellent standing and repute, proved difficult to finance.
It seemed that the Mastership issued money to finance itself, and individual Masters issued money on their personal credit, and it was handled through the Mastership Banks.
Interminably he discoursed on finance and Russian politics, and though, at times, the General made feints to contradict him, he did so humbly, and as though wishing not wholly to lose sight of his own dignity.
What proportion of the colonists were able to finance their voyage across the sea is a matter of pure conjecture. Undoubtedly a very considerable number could do so, for we can trace the family fortunes of many early settlers.
I told him that I was really a stranger to the whole subject; that not having yet informed myself of the system of finance adopted, I knew not how far this was a necessary sequence; that undoubtedly, if its rejection endangered a dissolution of our Union at this incipient stage, I should deem that the most unfortunate of all consequences, to avert which all partial and temporary evils should be yielded.