FromMiddle Englishfinaunce, fromAnglo-Norman,Middle Frenchfinance, fromfiner(“to pay ransom”) (whence alsoEnglishfine(“to pay a penalty”)), fromfin(“end”), fromLatinfīnis.[1][2]Original English sense that appeared c. 1400 was “ending”. The sense of “ending or satisfying a debt” originated from French influence: in the sense of “ransom” appeared in the mid 15th century, in the sense of “taxation” appeared in the late 15th century. In the sense of “manage money” first recorded c. 1770.[1]
4th centuryBCE,Aristotle,Politics, volume book I, part XI; republished as John Alexander Smith, William David Ross, transl.,The works of Aristotle translated into English, volume10,1908:
And statesmen as well ought to know these things; for a state is often as much in want of money and of such devices for obtaining it as a household, or even more so; hence some public men devote themselves entirely tofinance.
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.
The provision of a loan, payment instalment terms, or similar arrangement, to enable a customer to purchase an item without paying the full amount straight away.
Finance on all our new cars is provided by ABC Loans Ltd.
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Hefinanced his home purchase through a local credit union.
1995, A. D. F. Price,Financing International Projects[1], page 3:
Therefore, when assets are examined together with other problems, such as one-sided contracts or delays in payment, the argument forfinancing construction projects is substantially weakened.
2000, G. Colombo,Sanctions and remedies in cases of illegalfinancing of political parties,Trading in Influence and the IllegalFinancing of Political Parties, Third European Conference of Specialised Services in the Fight against Corruption,page 64,
Indeed, it is a crime tofinance or make contributions in any form to political parties, their factions, parliamentary groups, i.e. members of the Italian parliament (if they are Italian) and the European parliament, regional, provincial and town councillors, candidates in such offices, party leaders:[…].
2011, Thomas W. Dombroski,How America WasFinanced,page xi:
This is not a historical novel yet it is in a sense historical and contained within this book is a true story of how America wasfinanced.
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