{
    "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."
}