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{
"term": "finance",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "money used to run a business, an activity or a project",
"sensetop": "finance for something",
"labels": "(especially British English)North American English usually",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The project will only go ahead if they can raise the necessary finance."
},
{
"text": "to arrange/secure finance"
},
{
"text": "Finance for education comes from taxpayers.",
"contextForm": "finance for something"
},
{
"text": "Several banks are providing finance for the housing programme."
},
{
"text": "She struggled to get the necessary finance for her training."
},
{
"text": "You may require bridging finance until the sale of your own property is completed."
},
{
"text": "the availability of bank finance for small businesses"
},
{
"text": "the finance available to local government"
},
{
"text": "the need to obtain additional finance"
}
],
"topics": ["Business", "Money"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["cheap", "necessary", "additional"],
"verb + finance": ["allocate", "provide", "need"],
"finance + verb": ["be available"],
"finance + noun": ["company", "house", "industry"],
"preposition": ["finance for"],
"phrases": ["a source of finance"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the activity of managing money, especially by a government or commercial organization",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "the Minister of Finance"
},
{
"text": "the **finance director/department/committee**"
},
{
"text": "She's got a diploma in banking and finance."
},
{
"text": "the world of **high finance** *(= finance involving large companies or countries)*"
},
{
"text": "an expert in **public/personal/corporate finance**"
},
{
"text": "a **finance company**"
},
{
"text": "Local government finance officers found the tax very difficult to administer."
},
{
"text": "The banking and finance sector was booming."
},
{
"text": "the world of high finance"
},
{
"text": "Please send all invoices to the finance department."
},
{
"text": "that most emotive of personal finance issues—taxation"
},
{
"text": "The bank offers advice and guidance on personal finance."
}
],
"topics": ["Money", "Business"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["high", "company", "corporate"],
"finance + noun": ["director", "minister", "officer"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "the money available to a person, an organization or a country; the way this money is managed",
"labels": "(informal)(informal)(British English)(North American English)(informal)(informal)(informal)(British English)(US English)(formal)(especially North American English)(British English)(especially British English)(especially British English)(North American English usually)(informal)(informal)especially North American English",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "**government/public/personal finances**"
},
{
"text": "They were unable to manage their finances."
},
{
"text": "It's about time you sorted out your finances."
},
{
"text": "Moving house put a severe strain on our finances."
},
{
"text": "The firm’s finances are basically sound."
},
{
"text": "Our family finances are not very healthy at the moment."
},
{
"text": "The company was under pressure to get its finances in order."
},
{
"text": "The company's finances are looking a bit shaky."
},
{
"text": "Their finances are in a mess."
},
{
"text": "They are not sure how they will raise the finances to go on the trip."
},
{
"text": "We don't have the finances to go on holiday this year."
},
{
"text": "We don't have the finances to throw a big party."
},
{
"text": "how to plan your finances for a comfortable retirement"
}
],
"topics": ["Money", "Business"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["healthy", "sound", "tight"],
"verb + finances": ["have", "lack", "control"],
"finances + verb": ["be a mess", "be in a mess"],
"phrases": ["the state of somebody’s finances"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈfaɪnæns//faɪˈnæns//fəˈnæns/",
"audio": "fi/finance/finance__gb_4.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈfaɪnæns//faɪˈnæns//fəˈnæns/",
"audio": "fi/finance/finance__us_1_rr.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "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."
}