FINANCE Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

finance

verb

Definition of finance

as in to fund

to provide money for a local business kindly financed the high school band's trip to New York City

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defund

as in to establish

to furnish (as an institution) with a regular source of income established a fund to finance a visiting lecturer position at the local college

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Recent Examples of finance Its results show a striking divergence between companies manufacturing new power technologies and those improving how energy is financed, deployed, managed and consumed. — Rob Day, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 Burry has been among Wall Street’s most outspoken skeptics of the artificial intelligence boom, arguing that demand for AI infrastructure is being fueled by financing arrangements that may prove unsustainable. — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026 The Anora filmmaker described the film — which was financed by fashion house Self-Portrait —as both a love letter to his star and her native Malaysia. — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2026 In another Telegram post, Kovalenko indicated that Ukraine uses its weapons against Russian military-industrial infrastructure to affect Moscow’s ability to finance the war. — Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for finance

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Nvidia would supply computing hardware through the chip arrangement instead of directly funding construction.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
Unfreezing these assets is one of the main bargaining chips in talks with Western governments, with the ban on girls’ education a key sticking point – meaning the very money that once funded that schooling is now being withheld to try to restore it.

— Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026

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