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of an individual; often used in the plural for funds; available money; resources. All the finances or revenues of the imperial crown. Bacon.

The simplest rudiments of any subject; as, the A B C of finance. A B C book, a primer. Shak.

llor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries. To open the budget, to lay before a legislative body the financial estimate…

Of or pertaining to finance and public revenue.

The science of finance or public revenue.

Pertaining to finance. "Our financial and commercial system." Macaulay.

One charged with the administration of finance; an officer who administers the public revenue; a treasurer. Burke.

Investing in the public funds. Funding system, a system or scheme of finance or revenue by which provision is made for paying the interest or principal of a public debt.

nt of some public business; a superintendent; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance.

or suggestion, employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health, his finances, and his life by the adoption of a favorable mental attitude. AS a therapeutic doctrine it stands for silent and absent mental treatment, and the theory that all diseases are mental in origin. As a cult it has its unifyin…

Hence, a treasury; finances; as, the public purse.

Direct management of public finance or public works by agents of the government for government account; -- opposed to the contract system.

To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances.

ernment with foreign courts; the secretary of the treasury, who manages the department of finance; the secretary of war, etc.

orm by a quick effort; to devise; to invent; to contrive, as, to strike out a new plan of finance. (d) (Baseball) To cause a player to strike out; -- said of the pitcher. See To strike out, under Strike, v. i. -- To strike sail. See under Sail. -- To strike up. (a) To cause to sound; to begin to beat. "Strike up the…

on to the normal income tax of one shilling and twopence for every pound, imposed, by the Finance Act of 1909-1910 (c. 8, ss 66, 72), on the amount by which the income of any person exceeds £3,000 when his total income exceeds £5,000.

That department of a government which has charge of the finances.