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.
2.
The science of raising and expending the public revenue.
Versed in the details of finance.
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.