financing

[fi-nan-sing, fahy-nan-]

noun

1. the act of obtaining or furnishing money or capital for a purchase or enterprise.

2. the funds so obtained.

Word History and Origins

Origin of financing¹

First recorded in 1820–30; finance (verb) + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

Last year, the company launched Amazon Autos, a platform for researching, ordering and financing Hyundai vehicles within 48 cities.

Read more on MarketWatch

Westinghouse estimates an “overnight cost” of roughly $10 billion per reactor—a sum that omits financing charges and assumes the plants could theoretically be built overnight.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

What is your view of Meta’s financing of its new data center?

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

The termination notices said Sonder had been working with prospective investors on a potential sale, but that anticipated financing was “suddenly and unexpectedly no longer available,” according to a copy reviewed by the Journal.

Read more on The Wall Street Journal

There are questions about the AI trade beyond Nvidia’s control, Zakalik said, including the debt financing by major customers like Oracle Corp.

Read more on MarketWatch

Related Words

• expenditure 
• funding www.thesaurus.com
• loan 
• outlay 
• payment