Finance vs Currency - What's the difference?
finance | currency |
The management of money and other assets.
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(usually in plural) Monetary resources, especially those of a public entity or a company.
To provide or obtain funding for a transaction or undertaking; to ; to support.
Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.
Paper money.
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The state of being current; general acceptance or recognition.
(obsolete) fluency; readiness of utterance
(obsolete) Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
As a verb finance
is .As a noun currency is
money or other items used to facilitate transactions.finance
English
Noun
(en noun)End of the peer show, passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}
Derived terms
* corporate finance * financial * part-finance (verb ) * personal finance * public financeExternal links
* (wikipedia "finance")Verb
(financ)- His parents financed his college education.
- He financed his home purchase through a local credit union.
See also
*References
currency
English
(wikipedia currency)Noun
- Wampum was used as a currency by Amerindians.
- Spangler went through his pockets, coming out with a handful of small coins, one piece of currency and a hard-boiled egg.
- The jargon’s currency .
- He takes greatness of kingdoms according to their bulk and currency , and not after intrinsic value. — Francis Bacon.
- The bare name of Englishman too often gave a transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful. — W. Irving.