different between finance vs quango

English

Etymology

From Middle English finaunce, from Anglo-Norman, Middle French finance, from finer (“to pay ransom”) (whence also English fine (“to pay a penalty”)), from fin (“end”), from Latin f?nis.

Original English sense c. 1400 was “ending”. Sense of “ending/satisfying a debt” came from French influence: in sense of “ransom” mid 15th century, in sense of “taxation” late 15th century. In sense of “manage money” first recorded 1770.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?næns/, /fa??næns/, /f??næns/
• Hyphenation: fi?nance
• Rhymes: -æns

Noun

finance (countable and uncountable, plural finances)

1. The management of money and other assets.
2. The science of management of money and other assets.
3. (usually in the plural) Monetary resources, especially those of a public entity or a company.

4. The provision of a loan, payment instalment terms, or similar arrangement, to enable a customer to purchase an item without paying the full amount straight away.

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Verb

finance (third-person singular simple present finances, present participle financing, simple past and past participle financed)

1. (intransitive) To conduct, or procure money for, financial operations; manage finances.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To pay ransom.
3. (transitive) To manage financially; be financier for; provide or obtain funding for a transaction or undertaking.

   Synonym: fund

   • 2000, G. Colombo, Sanctions and remedies in cases of illegal financing of political parties, Trading in Influence and the Illegal Financing of Political Parties, Third European Conference of Specialised Services in the Fight against Corruption, page 64,

     Indeed, it is a crime to finance or make contributions in any form to political parties, their factions, parliamentary groups, i.e. members of the Italian parliament (if they are Italian) and the European parliament, regional, provincial and town councillors, candidates in such offices, party leaders: […] .

   • 2011, Thomas W. Dombroski, How America Was Financed, page xi,

     This is not a historical novel yet it is in a sense historical and contained within this book is a true story of how America was financed.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To extort ransom from.

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See also

• Appendix:Glossary of finance

Further reading

• finance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “finance”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “finance” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "finance" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
• "finance" in the Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version), K Dictionaries limited, 2000-2006.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?nant?s?]

Noun

finance f pl

1. finances

Related terms

• finan?ní
• finan?ník
• financovat

Further reading

• finance in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• finance in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Esperanto

Adverb

finance

1. financially

French

Etymology

From Old French finer (“to pay”) + -ance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.n??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

finance f (plural finances)

1. finance

Derived terms

• financer

Descendants

• ? Danish: finans
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: finans
• ? Norwegian Nynorsk: finans

Further reading

• “finance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From the initial letters (the first two letters for the first word) of “quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization”. Coined in 1967 by Alan Pifer of the US-based Carnegie Foundation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kwæ?.???/
• Rhymes: -æ????
• Hyphenation: quan?go

Noun

quango (plural quangos)

1. (Britain) An organization that, although financed by a government, acts independently of it.
   • 1998, Ferenc Miszlivetz; Katalin Ertsey, “Hungary: Civil Society in the Post-Socialist World”, in Alison van Rooy, editor, Civil Society and the Aid Industry: The Politics and Promise, London: Earthscan, OCLC ISBN 978-1-85383-553-7; republished as Civil Society and the Aid Industry (Earthscan Library Collection, Aid and Development; 3), London; Stirling, Va.: Earthscan, 2013, ISBN 978-1-84971-042-8, page 78:

     The strongest link to the State, however, occurs with quangos, (quasi-NGOs), and the many umbrella groups that also thrive on State support. Many of the new parties realized after their Sturm und Drang years that they still needed regular contacts with the 'civil' world and that their civilian support base had been seriously eroded.

Synonyms

• parastatal

Derived terms

• quangocracy
• quangoism

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