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.
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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.
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Four days after the Taalas announcement, Nvidia signed preliminary agreements with Apollo, Blackstone, Brookfield, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and KKR to establish financing platforms intended to mobilize over $500 billion for AI infrastructure.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
The consortium was tasked with designing, building and financing the project, and operating and maintaining the people mover for 25 years after its completion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
This status brought “a safety premium,” conferring lower everyday borrowing costs for the U.S. and virtually unlimited financing capacity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
“While the hyperscalers are still using a large share of their cash reserves, they are increasingly scouring the globe for capital, both straight-up debt and increasingly intricate financing vehicles,” Azhar said in a Substack post.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
But though financing is the key, other elements are no less important.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
Such back-to-back financings have become more commonplace in Silicon Valley in the midst of the AI boom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
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
“Our acquisition pipeline remains very active, with plenty of dry powder from our recently announced equity financings led by Apollo and Temasek, ” said Chairman and Chief Executive Jacobs, in a statement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 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
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