finance meaning
EN
[ˈfaɪ.næns] [fəˈnæns] [-æns] WFinance
- Finance is a field that deals with the allocation of assets and liabilities over time under conditions of certainty and uncertainty. Finance can also be defined as the science of money management.
FR finance 
- NounPLfinancesSUF-ance
- The management of money and other assets.
- And statesmen as well ought to know these things; for a state is often as much in want of money and of such devices for obtaining it as a household, or even more so; hence some public men devote themselves entirely to finance.
- The science of management of money and other assets.
- (chiefly in the plural) Monetary resources, especially those of a public entity or a company.
- Who's really in charge of a democracy's finances?
- The management of money and other assets.
- VerbSGfinancesPRfinancingPT, PPfinanced
- To provide or obtain funding for a transaction or undertaking; to back; to support.
- His parents financed his college education.
- He financed his home purchase through a local credit union.
- To provide or obtain funding for a transaction or undertaking; to back; to support.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- I submitted my application for student finance months ago, but haven't heard back. I think I've fallen between the cracks.
- The Soviets also distributed flyers pointing out the mujahidin resistance was financed by the U.S.
- The Deutsche-Disconto Bank announces that it is now fully ‘reprivatised.’ The D.D. Bank’s reprivatisation was in part financed by sale to the Reich of the former Disconto Bank’s central offices.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of finance in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "finance" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb.