Finance Project Raise Money Extra Examples Government Noun

• the project will only go ahead if they can raise the necessary finance.
• to arrange/secure finance
• finance for education comes from taxpayers.
• the minister of finance

finance

1. money used to run a business, an activity or a project
• The project will only go ahead if they can raise the necessary finance.
• to arrange/secure finance
• Finance for education comes from taxpayers.

Extra Examples

• Several banks are providing finance for the housing programme.
• She struggled to get the necessary finance for her training.
• You may require bridging finance until the sale of your own property is completed.
• the availability of bank finance for small businesses
• the finance available to local government
• the need to obtain additional finance
2. the activity of managing money, especially by a government or commercial organization
• the Minister of Finance
• the finance director/department/committee
• She's got a diploma in banking and finance.
• the world of high finance (= finance involving large companies or countries)
• an expert in public/personal/corporate finance
• a finance company

Extra Examples

• Local government finance officers found the tax very difficult to administer.
• The banking and finance sector was booming.
• the world of high finance
• Please send all invoices to the finance department.
• that most emotive of personal finance issues—taxation
• The bank offers advice and guidance on personal finance.
3. the money available to a person, an organization or a country; the way this money is managed
• government/public/personal finances
• They were unable to manage their finances.
• It's about time you sorted out your finances.
• Moving house put a severe strain on our finances.
• The firm’s finances are basically sound.

Extra Examples

• Our family finances are not very healthy at the moment.
• The company was under pressure to get its finances in order.
• The company's finances are looking a bit shaky.
• Their finances are in a mess.
• They are not sure how they will raise the finances to go on the trip.
• We don't have the finances to go on holiday this year.
• We don't have the finances to throw a big party.
• how to plan your finances for a comfortable retirement

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Old French, from finer ‘make an end, settle a debt’, from fin ‘end’, from Latin finis ‘end’ (in medieval Latin denoting a sum paid on settling a lawsuit). The original sense was ‘payment of a debt, compensation, or ransom’; later ‘taxation, revenue’. Current senses date from the 18th cent., and reflect sense development in French.