Meaning & use
finance
To provide the money needed to pay for a project, purchase, or activity, often through loans or investment.
See it in a sentence
The bank agreed to finance the small business's expansion into a second location.
Her parents financed most of her college education through a combination of savings and loans.
A note on using this word
As a verb, 'finance' takes a direct object naming what is being paid for; you finance a project or purchase, not a person.
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Another way to use it
2. noun
The management of money, credit, investment, and banking, or the funds available to a person or organization.
She studied finance in college before taking a job at an investment bank.
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