Finance vs Finances - 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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(plurale tantum) funds or other financial resources
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As nouns the difference between finance and finances
is that finance is the management of money and other assets while finances is plural of lang=en.As verbs the difference between finance and finances
is that finance is to provide or obtain funding for a transaction or undertaking; to back; to support while finances is third-person singular of finance.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.