public finance
finance
verb
uk /ˈfaɪnæns/us
[ T ]
to provide or lend the money needed to pay for something :
finance a project/development/programme20% of the budget has been set aside to help finance the project.
be financed by/with/throughCorporate acquisitions will likely be financed through the issuance of high-yield bonds.

Examples of finance

finance
However, compared to their high reliance on informal care, they are more independent from their families in terms of financing their living expenses.
Non-humancapital payments have their source in the bonds that have financed the resources required by the firms producing the varieties of productive inputs.
At the same time, the programme's actuaries were projecting an enormous gap in the system's long-term finances.
Strictly speaking the system is not insurance-based but rather financed by a hypothecated tax.
Approximately two-thirds of the costs of the general sickness insurance were to be financed by the insured and the other third by the state.
Positive regression coefficients refer to positive opinion on financing the benefits and negative coef ficients indicate the opposite.
Sick funds were also financed by co-payments, mostly for prescription drugs.
His method of retaliation may have hurt his finances, but it saved his honour.
The counties have been financed by block grants from the state since 1980.
There was no separation of state finances from the ebb and flow of private fortunes.
Also, it can control the costs of drugs, since they are financed on a kind of risk-adjusted (still preliminary) population formula.
Second, advocates generally reject any significant role for government in regulating or financing health care.
If strategies require increased spending, this can be financed by increasing taxes, borrowing or the money supply.
Further research is needed to assess implementation issues, including impacts on government finances as a result of economic and/or demographic shocks.
Endogenous growth results from the formation of human capital, which is assumed to result from parental education and educational spending, financed out of altruism.
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Collocations withfinance

finance

These are words often used in combination with finance.

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campaign finance
Patronage, nepotism, campaignfinance and lobbying are ingrained in the political cultures of some countries that are leading the campaign against corruption.
finance committee
Membership was to include the area commissioner, technical officers, the district council chairman, member of parliament, financecommittee members, and the executive officer.
finance corporation
We already have a finance corporation for industry.
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