Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Finance

Finance , noun

[French, from Late Latin financia payment of money, money, from finare to pay a fine or subsidy (compare Old French finer to finish, pay), from Latin finis end. See Fine, n., Finish.]

1.
The income of a ruler or of a state; revenue; public money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used in the plural for funds; available money; resources.
All the finances or revenues of the imperial crown. — Bacon
2.
The science of raising and expending the public revenue.
Versed in the details of finance. — Macaulay

Finance , verb, transitive and intransitive

To conduct the finances of; to provide for, and manage, the capital for; to financier.
Securing foreign capital to finance multitudinous undertakings. — B. H. Chamberlain