Finances
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late Middle English: from Old French, from finer ‘make an end, settle a debt’, from fin ‘end’ (see fine2). The original sense was ‘payment of a debt, compensation, or ransom’; later ‘taxation, revenue’. Current senses date from the 18th century, and reflect sense development in French.
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finances (n.)
"pecuniary resources, funds in money," 1730, modeled on the French cognate, from plural of finance (n.).
