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Finance vs Financier - What's the difference?

finance | financier |

As nouns the difference between finance and financier

is that finance is the management of money and other assets while financier is a person who, as a profession, profits from large financial transactions.

As a verb finance

is to provide or obtain funding for a transaction or undertaking; to ; to support.

finance

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The management of money and other assets.
  • *
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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.}}
  • The science of management of money and other assets.
  • (usually in plural) Monetary resources, especially those of a public entity or a company.

    • Derived terms

    * corporate finance * financial * part-finance (verb ) * personal finance * public finance

    External links

    * (wikipedia "finance")

    Verb

    (financ)
  • To provide or obtain funding for a transaction or undertaking; to ; to support.
    • His parents financed his college education.
    He financed his home purchase through a local credit union.

    See also

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    References

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    financier

    English

    (wikipedia financier)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who, as a profession, profits from large financial transactions.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers . Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
  • A company that does the same.
  • One charged with the administration of finance; an officer who administers the public revenue; a treasurer.
    • (Burke)
  • A light, spongy teacake, usually based on almond flour or flavoring.
  • A traditional French (Ragoût a la Financière'') or Piemontese (''Finanziera alla piemontese ) rich sauce or ragout, made with coxcomb, wattles, cock's testicles, chicken livers and a variety of other ingredients.