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

And they should finance more than the typical 30% to 50% of affordable and supportive projects, which tends to leave developers spending years cobbling together the rest of the financing from other sources.

From Los Angeles Times

Might it be an international film, even if that movie failed to be submitted for the international feature Oscar by either the country financing it or the country of its filmmaker?

From Los Angeles Times

The New Deal-era Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, repealed in 1999 under President Bill Clinton, had stopped banks and other corporate entities from speculating in the types of financing schemes that in 2008 wrecked the material security of millions of Americans, disproportionately people of color.

From Salon

“When the situation in the theater of military operations is not in favor of the Kyiv regime, the West is faced with a choice — to continue financing it and destroying the Ukrainian population, or to recognize the current realities and start negotiating,” said Sergei Shoigu, head of Russia’s Security Council.

From Los Angeles Times

TGI Fridays has “secured a commitment for debtor-in-possession financing to support operations while proceeding through the Chapter 11 process,” the statement specified.

From Salon

Related Words

• expenditure
• funding
• loan
• outlay
• payment