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FINANCE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The commercial activity of providing funds and capital

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("finance" is a kind of...):

business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "finance"):

corporate finance (the financial activities of corporation)

financing; funding (the act of financing)

high finance (large and complex financial transactions (often used with the implication that those individuals or institutions who engage in them are unethical))

investing; investment (the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit)

floatation; flotation (financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares)

banking (transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc.)

Derivation:

finance (obtain or provide money for)

finance (sell or provide on credit)

financial (involving financial matters)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The management of money and credit and banking and investments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("finance" is a kind of...):

direction; management (the act of managing something)

Domain category:

finance (the branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "finance"):

banking (engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc.)

Derivation:

finance (obtain or provide money for)

finance (sell or provide on credit)

financial (involving financial matters)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("finance" is a kind of...):

economic science; economics; political economy (the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management)

Domain member category:

short (without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold)

short (not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices)

long (holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices)

accumulation ((finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation)

capital account ((finance) an account of the net value of a business at a specified date)

quaestor (any of several public officials of ancient Rome (usually in charge of finance and administration))

finance (the management of money and credit and banking and investments)

Derivation:

finance (obtain or provide money for)

financial (involving financial matters)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Obtain or provide money for

Example:

Can we finance the addition to our home?

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "finance" is one way to...):

pay (give money, usually in exchange for goods or services)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "finance"):

seed (help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money)

back (support financial backing for)

refinance (renew the financing of)

fund (convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue finance the movie

Derivation:

finance (the commercial activity of providing funds and capital)

finance (the management of money and credit and banking and investments)

finance (the branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets)

financing (the act of financing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Sell or provide on credit

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "finance" is one way to...):

credit (accounting: enter as credit)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

finance (the commercial activity of providing funds and capital)

finance (the management of money and credit and banking and investments)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Her mother financed the settlement, you see, so the girl wasn't afraid of being punished for letting me go.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I remember two pudding shops, between which I was divided, according to my finances.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD) Organize his/her finances to pay his/her bills (checks, bank statement, bills)?

(DAD - Organize Finances to Pay Bills, NCI Thesaurus)

An entity that is responsible for the initiation, management, and/or financing of a nonclinical study.

(Nonclinical Study Sponsor, NCI Thesaurus)

An organization that integrates financing and management of healthcare with the delivery of healthcare services to an enrolled population.

(Managed Healthcare Plan, NCI Thesaurus)

An individual with expertise in the law who provides legal counsel and representation to the individual, company, institution, or organization taking responsibility for the initiation, management, and financing of a study.

(Legal Representative of the Sponsor, NCI Thesaurus)

The most recent and most awaited was the epidemiological study Interphone which was partly financed by the Commission.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

The Austrian partner asked for the price to be kept secret, but the commissioner stated the purchase was financed by a loan, so it is not a burden on the state budget.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)

A standardized questionnaire developed by Pfeiffer et al in 1982 and adapted by National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC), which is used to measure instrumental activities of daily living such as preparing meals and managing personal finances in older adults with dementia.

(Functional Activities Questionnaire-NACC Version, NCI Thesaurus)

Then she had, indeed, been a pitiable object; for she had caught cold on the journey, and had hardly taken possession of her lodgings before she was again confined to her bed and suffering under severe and constant pain; and all this among strangers, with the absolute necessity of having a regular nurse, and finances at that moment particularly unfit to meet any extraordinary expense.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)