Finance /(?)/

Fi·nance

Finance

n.
  1. The income of a ruler or of a state; revenue; public money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used in the plural for funds; available money; resources.
    All the finances or revenues of the imperial crown.
  2. The science of raising and expending the public revenue.

Finance

v. t. & i.

imp. & p. p. Financed; p. pr. & vb. n. Financing

  1. To conduct the finances of; to provide for, and manage, the capital for; to financier.
    Securing foreign capital to finance multitudinous undertakings.