Financial Definition–adjective | 1. | pertaining to monetary receipts and expenditures; pertaining or relating to money matters; pecuniary: financial operations. |
| 2. | of or pertaining to those commonly engaged in dealing with money and credit. |
–noun | 3. | financials, financial information or data about a company, as balance sheets and price-earnings ratio. |
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Aid Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to provide support for or relief to; help: to aid the homeless victims of the fire. |
| 2. | to promote the progress or accomplishment of; facilitate. |
–verb (used without object) | 3.
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| to give help or assistance. |
–noun | 4. | help or support; assistance. |
| 5. | a person or thing that aids or furnishes assistance; helper; auxiliary. |
| 6. | aids, Manège. | a. | Also called natural aids. the means by which a rider communicates with and controls a horse, as the hands, legs, voice, and shifts in weight. |
| b. | Also called artificial aids. the devices by means of which a rider increases control of a horse, as spurs, whip, and martingale. |
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| 9. | a payment made by feudal vassals to their lord on special occasions. |
| 10. | English History. (after 1066) any of several revenues received by a king in the Middle Ages from his vassals and other subjects, limited by the Magna Charta to specified occasions. |
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