Definition of "finances" []

• Plural form of finance. (noun)
• Funds or other financial resources (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of finance. (verb)

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• "The rowers, knowing they had the honor of conveying the surintendant of the finances, pulled with all their strength, and that magic word, the _finances_, promised them a liberal gratification, of which they wished to prove themselves worthy."
• "This creche may be the poorest of the poor in finances, but they make up for this in full in heart."
• "Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sought to use the report to build momentum for health-care reform, reiterating the administration's contention that the best way to strengthen Medicare's finances is to, as she put it, "fix what's broken in the rest of the health-care system.""