self-finance

verb

self-fi·​nance ˌself-fə-ˈnan(t)s 

-ˈfī-ˌnan(t)s,

-fī-ˈnan(t)s

self-financed; self-financing; self-finances

1

transitive : to raise or provide funds or capital for (something) oneself : to finance (something) oneself

Sherzan self-financed much of his primary campaign, putting in more than $640,000 of his own money.

—Kathie Obradovich

2

intransitive : to furnish or provide oneself with necessary funds or capital

They lack the resources to self-finance until they have built a big enough operation.

—Patrick Kennedy

Examples of self-finance in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

All of these upgrades were self-financed as the company acted because worker wellbeing and long-term resilience made business sense. —Dianne Plummer, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025

Often, directors’ self-transformations involve changes in modes of production: Scorsese broke away from the studios and found independent financing; Coppola self-financed. —Richard Brody, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2025

Stuart noted that the project is self-financed by the fiscally-responsible company. —Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025

But he’s gone into uncharted territory with Megalopolis, the $120 million-budget film he self-financed. —Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 28 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1928, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for self-finance

• circumstance
• exceedance
• happenstance
• refinance
• advance
• askance
• enhance
• expanse
• finance
• freelance
• mischance
• perchance