Finance

• 1. The practice of manipulating and managing money.

• 2. The capital involved in a project, especially the capital that has to be raised to start a new business.

• 3. A loan of money for a particular purpose, especially by a finance house.

• 4. An academic discipline within the general field of economics dealing with funding, financial markets, and the funding implications for managing businesses.

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A Dictionary of Finance and Banking. Ed Jonathan Law and John Smullen. Oxford University Press, 2008. Oxford Reference Online.