Entry Word: finance

Function: verb

Meaning: 1 to provide money for <a local business kindly financed the high school bandʼs trip to New York City>

Synonyms capitalize, endow, fund, stake, subsidize, underwrite

Related Words grubstake; aid, back, patronize, sponsor, support

2 to furnish (as an institution) with a regular source of income <established a fund to finance a visiting lecturer position at the local college> — see endow 2