- present participle of finance.
financing
Americannoun
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financings
plural
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the act of obtaining or furnishing money or capital for a purchase or enterprise.
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the funds so obtained.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of financing
Explanation
Financing is the process of finding money for something you want. If you don't have enough money to buy the hot new video-game, you could try telling your parents that you need help financing your leisure activities. Notice the similarity between finance and finish? The root of both words is fin, which is Latin for "end," or "limit." Originally, financing meant ending a debt. If you owed money, you might ask a bank to finance you. Eventually people began asking banks for money even when they didn't owe anything. Now the word can be used to talk about getting money for almost any project, from a video-game purchase to a war.
Example Sentences
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Hasna is charged with conspiring to provide material support to Hamas, conspiring to finance terrorism and financing terrorism.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Ahead of the lease’s expiration, Srinivasan instead opted to buy a similar R1S with a zero-interest financing plan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
The prime brokerages that provide the financing to hedge funds may not allow them to invest as much in tech, the Panigirtzoglou team said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
An energy department spokeswoman noted the government was offering a financing programme for civil servants, but fewer options exist for average Filipinos.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
He was very busy with his politics and his business, traveling constantly, financing new political campaigns, buying land and tractors, raising race horses, and speculating on the price of gold, sugar, and paper.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
In its paperwork, SpaceX said it is required to use the proceeds from certain debt financings, as well as an IPO, to repay amounts outstanding under the bridge loan.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 20, 2026
The firm invested in venture-capital and debt financings for social-media platform X after Musk took it private and before it merged with xAI last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
“They really copied this from us,” a CoreWeave executive told me, speaking of these debt financings.
From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026
That’s not counting another $2.3 billion in off-balance-sheet financings and $600 million of unsecured other debt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025
Among the $285 billion in invested assets it held at the end of 2024 are tens of billions of dollars of mortgage loans and more bespoke financings originated by Barings, its wholly owned asset-management subsidiary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
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