Administration and Finance Unit

administration Noun

— The administration are the people who run and organise an organisation such as a business or government. In short, the administration does not actually know why it wants a space station. The Bush administration has one of the worst records of any American government.

and Conjunction

— You use and to talk about two things at once. I like singing and reading. Mary and Jane went on a holiday together. — You use and when you are listing a few things and you are now on your last item of the list. I like singing, reading, cycling and playing soccer. I used to like this girl from my class as she is pretty, gentle and caring. — And is used when you are putting two sentences together. She came into the store, shouted at the cashier, and left. — Used to show what happened after something else. The alarm went off and I woke up. — And is used to join certain numbers together. Two hundred and thirty-five people went missing after the earthquake.

finance Noun

— Finance is activities related to banking and money, especially by government. The minister of finance announced that taxes would increase by 1% in May. — Your finances is the money that you have. She had managed to raise sufficient finances to enable her and her family to travel to Australia. The company's finances seem to be in good shape.

finance Verb

— If you finance something, you provide money for it. The soccer team was partly financed by a local business. The bank is financing our car loan.

unit Noun

— One of a measure of something; the amount of something that is counted as "one". Measure five units to the left. $4 is the unit price. A pound is a useful unit for thinking about amounts of butter. — Form of measurement. I prefer metric units. — Item, used when no other word for something exists. He set up the A/C unit.