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FINANCES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Assets in the form of money
Synonyms:
cash in hand; finances; funds; monetary resource; pecuniary resource
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("finances" is a kind of...):
assets (anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "finances"):
bank (the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games)
purse strings (financial resources or support)
bankroll; roll (a roll of currency notes (often taken as the resources of a person or business etc.))
pocket (a supply of money)
Medicaid funds (public funds used to pay for Medicaid)
exchequer; treasury (the funds of a government or institution or individual)
money supply (the total stock of money in the economy; currency held by the public plus money in accounts in banks)
escrow funds (funds held in escrow)
matching funds (funds that will be supplied in an amount matching the funds available from other sources)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb finance
Context examples:
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)
And in the wretched state of his own finances, there was a very powerful motive for secrecy, in addition to his fear of discovery by Lydia's relations, for it had just transpired that he had left gaming debts behind him to a very considerable amount.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
An adverse event for which only minimal, local, or noninvasive intervention (e.g. packing, cautery) is indicated; or that limits instrumental activities of daily living (ADLs, e.g., shopping, laundry, transportation, or ability to conduct finances).
(Moderate Adverse Event, NCI Thesaurus)
Your meditation and possible reorganization of your finances may come up at the full moon of November 12.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Mr Elliot, raised by his marriage to great affluence, and disposed to every gratification of pleasure and vanity which could be commanded without involving himself, (for with all his self-indulgence he had become a prudent man), and beginning to be rich, just as his friend ought to have found himself to be poor, seemed to have had no concern at all for that friend's probable finances, but, on the contrary, had been prompting and encouraging expenses which could end only in ruin; and the Smiths accordingly had been ruined.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Your finances may have been consuming your thinking ever since the difficult new moon arrived late last month on October 27.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
In terms of pecking order, December 25/26 comes first, December 27 comes second, and December 15 comes third, but all are glittering days for your finances.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The March 24 new moon in Aries at four degrees will emphasize your finances.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
As you move closer to the end of December, news about money will keep becoming bigger and better for your finances.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Last month you began taking a look at your finances, for that was when a number of planets began to cluster in your second house of earned income.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
