1
as in to fund
to provide money for
a local business kindly financed the high school band's trip to New York City
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2
as in to establish
to furnish (as an institution) with a regular source of income
established a fund to finance a visiting lecturer position at the local college
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Recent Examples of finance
Production company 2929 Entertainment, which is owned by Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban, Jeff Skoll’s Participant Media and Clooney are financing the live broadcast.
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Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 5 June 2025
The House bill includes new work requirements that would apply to childless Medicaid recipients without disabilities between the ages of 19 and 64, more frequent eligibility checks and changes to how states can finance their share of the costs of the program.
—Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 4 June 2025
In 1971, 21-year old independent filmmaker Robert Schnitzer financed his first micro-budget feature the way Robert Townsend, Kevin Smith, and other maverick directors would decades later: by putting it all on his credit card.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 4 June 2025
More subsidies, more help with financing homes and increased incentives to make housing more affordable are needed.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2025
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Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 5 June 2025
The House bill includes new work requirements that would apply to childless Medicaid recipients without disabilities between the ages of 19 and 64, more frequent eligibility checks and changes to how states can finance their share of the costs of the program.
—Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 4 June 2025
In 1971, 21-year old independent filmmaker Robert Schnitzer financed his first micro-budget feature the way Robert Townsend, Kevin Smith, and other maverick directors would decades later: by putting it all on his credit card.
—Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 4 June 2025
More subsidies, more help with financing homes and increased incentives to make housing more affordable are needed.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for finance
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To that end, Iran has funded, trained, and at times even created various proxies, including Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, and various terrorist militias in Syria and Iraq.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
6 June 2025
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It will be used to fund several activities, including fellowships to train interdisciplinary scholars, technical development projects, and conferences brining together scholars in quantum biology and medicine.—
Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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Without it, these cases drag on for years while patent-infringing products, often subsidized by foreign governments, flood American markets.—
Alden Abbott,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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That is going away because the government should not be subsidizing these things ...—
Caitlin Yilek,
CBS News,
3 June 2025
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“Finance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/finance. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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