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Finance vs Prefinance - What's the difference?

finance | prefinance |

As verbs the difference between finance and prefinance

is that finance is while prefinance is to finance in advance.

finance

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The management of money and other assets.
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  • * {{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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    prefinance

    English

    Verb

    (prefinanc)
  • To finance in advance.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 8, author=Joe Nocera, title=It’s Time to Stay the Courier, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=It is expected to operate as a business, turning a profit and so on, and yet it is still subject to Congressional oversight and all sorts of legal constraints, like that ridiculous health benefit prefinancing for future employees, which was part of a big 2006 postal reorganization bill. }}