- present tense form of finance (3rd person singular).
finances
Example Sentences
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We both cooked, kept house, made beds, shoveled snow, mowed the lawn, handled the finances, and bought, built or leased the 11 different homes we lived in before retiring.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 24, 2026
Meanwhile, food prices have jumped by 40% in just a few years, which has clobbered people's finances.
From BBC • Jun. 23, 2026
The branding has worked wonders for the studio’s reputation, leading diehard loyalists to conflate the production-and-distribution company with the art it finances — resulting in capsule collections of merch flying off the digital shelves.
From Salon • Jun. 23, 2026
They’d loved hiking the Great Wall of China and participating in 150-mile bike rides, and had shored up their finances to retire early.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 23, 2026
Wait until Mom and Dad got home and I had to break it to them that my finances were being audited.
From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen
Vocabulary lists containing finances
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Workshop 6, Part 1
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Means to an End: Fin
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