Finance vs Fund - What's the difference?
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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.
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A sum or source of money.
An organization managing such money.
A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.
A large supply of something to be drawn upon.
* Macaulay
As nouns the difference between finance and fund
is that finance is the management of money and other assets while fund is a sum or source of money.As verbs the difference between finance and fund
is that finance is to provide or obtain funding for a transaction or undertaking; to back; to support while fund is to pay for.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
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fund
English
(wikipedia fund)Noun
(en noun)- the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.
- a fund for the maintenance of underprivileged students
- Several major funds were declared insolvent recently.
- He drew on his immense fund of knowledge.
- an inexhaustible fund of stories
