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Answer for the clue "The branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets ", 7 letters:
finance

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Word definitions for finance in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "to ransom" (obsolete), from finance (n.). Sense of "to manage money" is recorded from 1827; that of "to furnish with money" is from 1866. Related: Financed ; financing .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. obtain or provide money for; "Can we finance the addition to our home?" sell or provide on credit

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Finance is a field that deals with the study of investments . It includes the dynamics of assets and liabilities over time under conditions of different degrees of uncertainty and risk. Finance can also be defined as the science of money management. Finance ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The management of money and other assets. vb. To provide or obtain funding for a transaction or undertaking; to back#Verb; to support.

Usage examples of finance.

The Supreme Council had been supreme in fact, not just in name, and the Adjutors simply an advisory arm of the government charged with watching finances and expenditures.

Harding, the banker and local magnate of Sandy Beach, whose money it was that had financed the new aeroplane concern.

About the end of July 1805 the embarrassment which sometime before had begun to be felt in the finances of Europe was alarmingly augmented.

Joe was the smart one, the one who could calculate algebraic equations in his head, the one who would go on to a brilliant career in finance, just like his father.

The money allegedly was to help pay off debts and to finance an Acapulco vacation for two.

The party needed large sums to finance election campaigns, pay the bill for its widespread and intensified propaganda, meet the payroll of hundreds of full-time officials and maintain the private armies of the S.

Its attendant phenomena grow colorless, more forced, and one by one they fade away: Equality, Democracy, Happiness, Instability, Commercialism, High Finance and its power of Money, Class War, Trade as an end in itself, Social Atomism, Parliamentarism, Liberalism, Communism, Materialism, Mass-Propaganda.

Nor was the contracts clause violated by State legislation authorizing State control over insolvent communities through a Municipal Finance Commission.

It was her pet project, the prototype of several other homes for juveniles that she hinted The Foundation might be able to finance with the generous bequest she might leave us.

Ticknor had started in Boston in the field of complex financing, and he brought to publishing, which at the time was little more than bookselling, the mind of a fine banker.

We know them for what they are,--ruffians in politics, ruffians in finance, ruffians in law, ruffians in trade, bribers, swindlers, and tricksters.

Anyway, if Harvey had changed his mind about the Cooley ranch, it probably had more to do with finances than with anything the elders had said.

I therefore replied with all the airs of a doctor of finance that I could say something about the theory of taxation.

But in a three-hour confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Finance Committee, he did not spell out the benefits of tax cuts in any detail.

They had financed Derain, the discoverer of this planet, fifty years ago.