What is "finances"

finances \finances\ n. assets in the form of money.

Syn: funds, monetary resource, cash in hand, pecuniary resource.

"pecuniary resources, funds in money," 1730, modeled on the French cognate, from plural of finance (n.).

n. 1 (plural of finance English) 2 (context plurale tantum English) funds or other financial resources vb. (en-third-person singular of: finance)

n. assets in the form of money [syn: funds, monetary resource, cash in hand, pecuniary resource]