Let’s talk about the word finance today.
Finance: noun
- Management of money, especially in banking and investments
The CFO manages finances in a company.
2. Finances: the money earned by a company or a person; revenue
In our family, my mother manages our finances.
Finance: verb
- (used with an object): to supply with money or capital; obtain money or credit for
The provincial government has refused to finance the project.
2. to provide or lend money to pay for something
I will finance the purchase of the car.
Financial: adjective: connected with money and how it is managed
After the interest rates had been raised, he ran into financial troubles.
Financially: adverb: connected with money and how it is managed
Financially, we are doing okay.
He is financially savvy. He knows how to make and invest money.
Finance: Collocations:
to finance + (Object)
e.g. to finance project
To finance: project, construction, purchase, film, research, company, activity, program, expedition, investment,
Verb + finance
e.g. to manage finance
to raise, to provide, to help, to improve,
Adjective + finance
e.g. public finance
public, corporate, personal, international, behavioural, high,
Noun + finance
e.g. campaign finance
campaign, government, local government,
finance + Noun
e.g. finance minister
minister, director, committee, company, ministry, sub-committee, department, reform, sector, industry, bill, law, officer, secretary, chairman,
Subject + finance +(e)s
e.g. money finance +(e)s
money, fund, government, loan, bank, state, order,
to finance + Prep + Noun
e.g. to finance from budget
Verb + Prep + finance
e.g. to relate to finance
to be connected to finance, to be linked to finance,
Top 10 collocations with the word ‘finance’:
1. finance minister
2. to finance project
3. minister for finance
There is a finance minister in every province in Canada.
The banks didn’t want to finance such a project .
The Honourable Chrystia Freeland is Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance.
4. public finance
Public finance will be changed with technology.
5. finance director
There are 728 Finance Director jobs in Mississauga today.
6. to finance construction
The city government will finance the construction of the Community Center.
7. finance committee
He was on the centre’s finance committee for 5 years.
8. corporate finance
Corporate finance means designing, developing and managing the capital structure of a business.
9. campaign finance
The campaign financed the elections of the Democratic Party’s candidate.
10. finance company
Examples of finance companies are investment banking firms, brokerage houses, banks, lenders, insurance companies, credit card companies, tax and accounting firms, real estate companies, etc.
