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Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. into bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch & Company to be swallowed by the Bank of America Corporation and the continuing chaos among the most venerable names in American finance, anxiety for the economy is the foremost issue on voters†™ minds.

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  1. noun The science of the management of money and other assets.
  2. noun The management of money, banking, investments, and credit.
  3. noun Monetary resources; funds, especially those of a government or corporate body.
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  • Three months ago, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, I commented to one of the best-known men in American finance that he seemed pretty glum. —  Dealbreaker
  • Financial Accountant verdict recruitment & consultancy ltd. undergraduate associate -- finance city glendale ... the fields of: finance, accounting, business administration with a minor in finance or accounting, and / or .... —  Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk
  • The neighbors have it, the finance is available and everyone else is doing it. —  US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha
  • This, of course, brings us to Bernie Madoff himself, a swindler with impeccable Wall Street credentials, one of the very best of all those "best people" in American finance, who ran a gigantic Ponzi scheme and ripped off billions of dollars from unsuspecting investors. —  CapeCodToday Blog Chowder
  • If the top layer in this troika keep their jobs, nothing will change in Irish finance. —  David McWilliams
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finance:   financing ·  finances ·  financed
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English finaunce, settlement, money supply, from Old French finance, payment, from finer, to pay ransom, from fin, end, from Latin fīnis.

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  1. from Middle English finaunce, fynaunce, fine, forfeit, ransom (= Dutch financie, finantie = German finanz = Danish Swedish finans, usually in plural, finances), from Old French finance, plural finances, wealth, substance, revenue, extraordinary levies, French finance, cash, ready money, finance, plural finances, finances, money matters, = Provencal finansa = Old Spanish finanza = Portuguese finança = Italian finanza, quittance, plural finanze, finance, revenue, from Middle Latin financia, a money payment, money, from finare, pay a fine or tax (later Italian finare, end, quit, discharge, = Old French finer, pay), from Middle Latin finis, a payment in settlement, a fine, tax: see fine, n.
  2. = French financer, advance money; from the noun.
 

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