finance

1. 1.

   obtain or provide money for

   “Can we finance the addition to our home?”

   Broaderpay

   Narrowerseedbackrefinancefund
2. 2.

   sell or provide on credit

   Broadercredit

Other forms of finance

plural

finances·

past tense

financed·

present participle

financing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about finance

What does finance mean?

finance means "the commercial activity of providing funds and capital". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in finance?

finance has 2 syllables: fi-nance. The stress falls on "nance". In IPA it is /fəˈnæns/.

Is finance a common word?

finance is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with finance?

2 words rhyme with finance. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.