Finance

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The science of raising and expending the public revenue.

II. Finance ·add. ·vt & ·vi To conduct the finances of; to provide for, and manage, the capital for; to Financier.

III. Finance ·noun The income of a ruler or of a state; revennue; public money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used in the plural for funds; available money; resources.