The meaning of Finance

noun

The process or work of keeping financial accounts.

Usage examples:

An investigation into suspected false accounting

verb

Consider or regard in a specified way.

Usage examples:

Her visit could not be accounted a success

noun

The rear surface of the human body from the shoulders to the hips.

Usage examples:

He lay on his back

adverb

In the opposite direction from the one that one is facing or travelling towards.

Usage examples:

He moved back a pace

verb

Give financial, material, or moral support to.

Usage examples:

He had a newspaper empire backing him

noun

The business conducted or services offered by a bank.

Usage examples:

With this account, you are entitled to free banking

noun

An embankment or artificial bank.

Usage examples:

I climbed down the banking and took a photograph

verb

Heap (a substance) into a mass or mound.

Usage examples:

The rain banked the soil up behind the gate

noun

A person's regular occupation, profession, or trade.

Usage examples:

Experts who typically conduct their business over the internet

noun

The activity of buying and selling goods and services, or a particular company that does this, or work in general rather than pleasure

Usage examples:

[ c ] he runs a dry cleaning business., [ u ] i’m in baltimore on business., [ u ] our firm does a …

noun

The activity of buying and selling goods and services

Usage examples:

In business she is an academic, but all her brothers work in business., be in business currently, f…

verb

Take the chance to gain advantage from.

Usage examples:

Do they have what it takes to capitalize on this emerging opportunity?

verb

To supply money to a business so that it can operate or develop, or to get enough money to do this

Usage examples:

Be capitalized at sth he said that he expected most companies that are capitalized at $500,000 or m…

noun

The activity of buying and selling, especially on a large scale.

Usage examples:

The changes in taxation are of benefit to commerce

noun

The buying and selling of goods and services, esp. in large amounts

Usage examples:

Congress has the power to regulate commerce between the states.

noun

The activity of buying and selling products and services

Usage examples:

Online commerce is expected to continue to increase., foreign/global/international commerce

plural noun

The branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth.

Usage examples:

They are most likely to acquire this stock of knowledge by studying economics at school.

plural noun

The condition of a region or group as regards material prosperity.

Usage examples:

He is responsible for the island's modest economics

noun

The scientific study of the system by which a country’s wealth is made and used

verb

Provide with a quality, ability, or asset.

Usage examples:

He was endowed with tremendous physical strength

verb

To give money that will provide an income for a college or university, a hospital, or other organization

Usage examples:

In 1937, mellon endowed the national gallery of art., people think jefferson was endowed with great…

verb

To give a large amount of money to pay for creating a college, hospital, etc., or to provide an income for it

Usage examples:

$1.5 million was donated to endow a university chair in his name.

noun

A sum of money saved or made available for a particular purpose.

Usage examples:

He had set up a fund to coordinate economic investment

verb

Provide with money for a particular purpose.

Usage examples:

The world bank refused to fund the project

noun

A sum of money saved and made available for a particular purpose

Usage examples:

A scholarship fund for college students, the company’s pension fund, he plans to donate money to fu…

noun

A formal assurance (typically in writing) that certain conditions will be fulfilled, especially that a product will be repaired or replaced if not of a specified quality.

Usage examples:

We offer a 10-year guarantee against rusting

verb

Provide a formal assurance, especially that certain conditions will be fulfilled relating to a product, service, or transaction.

Usage examples:

The company guarantees to refund your money

noun

A promise that something will be done or will happen, esp. a written promise by a company to repair or change a product that develops a fault within a particular period of time

Usage examples:

[ c ] the vacuum cleaner comes with a two-year guarantee., [ u ] no matter how many stars you have …

noun

The action or process of investing money for profit.

Usage examples:

A debate over private investment in road-building

noun

The act of putting money or effort into something to make a profit or achieve a result

Usage examples:

[ c ] real estate investments, [ u ] there’s an awful lot of foreign investment in the us.

noun

The act of putting money into a business to buy new stock, machines, etc., or a sum of money that is invested in a business in this way

Usage examples:

Investment in sth the company has increased its investment in research., they plan to maintain thei…

noun

A person or organization that pays for or contributes to the costs involved in staging a sporting or artistic event in return for advertising.

Usage examples:

The production cost £50,000, most coming from local sponsors

verb

Provide funds for (a project or activity or the person carrying it out).

Usage examples:

Joe is being sponsored by a government training scheme

verb

To support a person, organization, or activity by giving money, encouragement, or other help

Usage examples:

The rotary club sponsors little league baseball in the summer., corporate sponsors support many pub…

verb

Support (an organization or activity) financially.

Usage examples:

The mining industry continues to be subsidized

verb

To pay part of the cost of something

Usage examples:

Taxpayers shouldn’t subsidize a golf course., the tenants live in federally subsidized apartments.

verb

To give money to a person or an organization in order to pay part of the cost of something that they do or make

Usage examples:

Be subsidized by sb/sth the uninsured often seek emergency care at hospitals, which is eventually s…

verb

Bear all or part of the weight of; hold up.

Usage examples:

The dome was supported by a hundred white columns

noun

A thing that bears the weight of something or keeps it upright.

Usage examples:

The best support for a camera is a tripod

verb

The act of bearing the weight of or strengthening

verb

Sign and accept liability under (an insurance policy), thus guaranteeing payment in case loss or damage occurs.

Usage examples:

The policy, underwritten at lloyd's, indemnifies trustees against loss arising from wrongful acts

verb

To support something that costs money by promising to pay for it, or by promising to pay if necessary to protect others who are risking their money

Usage examples:

The museum show was largely underwritten by a grant from the government of sweden.

verb

To give an activity financial support and take responsibility for paying any costs if it fails

Usage examples:

He underwrote a friend's development company in new york., many businesses have underwritten the ev…