FINANCING Synonyms: 102 Similar and Opposite Words

financing 1 of 2

noun

Definition of financing

as in funding

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as in capital

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financing

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verb

present participle of finance

as in subsidizing

to provide money for a local business kindly financed the high school band's trip to New York City

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defunding

as in establishing

to furnish (as an institution) with a regular source of income established a fund to finance a visiting lecturer position at the local college

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Recent Examples of financing

Noun

The city has committed $600 million through bond financing to help construct the stadium. — Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 8 Oct. 2026 The round could value the Google DeepMind spinout at as much as $50 billion, though the financing hasn't closed and details could change. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026

Verb

Bond yields would increase, and financing the ballooning national debt would become even harder. — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026 The key 10-year Treasury yield, which underpins the cost of financing debt and taking out mortgage rates and can influence economic activity, just hit its highest level since 2002. — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for financing

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Noun

With respect to the state’s cancer crisis, Hinson defended her record by highlighting her work during her three terms in Congress to boost cancer research funding for the National Institutes of Health.

— Gabrielle M. Etzel, The Washington Examiner, 8 Oct. 2026
Common long-term goals may include saving for retirement or funding college education.

— Kate Dore, CFP®, EA,Kelli Grant, CFP®, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of funding

Noun

Otthon Centrum analyst Gábor Soóki-Tóth said Tihany is one of the most expensive places in Hungary to buy a vacation property — with prices outstripping those in the nation's capital.

— Lucy Handley, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, who is stationed at Futenma Air Station, on suspicion of strangling Anna Yagi, 39, at a hotel in the island's capital city, Naha, early Saturday and stealing her wallet and backpack.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of capital

Verb

How about subsidizing our next freshman class and bringing the cost down to $50K?

— Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 8 Oct. 2026
Digital tools have made pure execution nearly free, so firms that still price advice as a percentage of assets are subsidizing convenience with margin.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of subsidizing

Noun

Nigeria introduced a new discount on fuel, reigniting fierce debate over the wisdom of terminating a long-running subsidy program three years ago.

— Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2026
That implied that the effect of the subsidy terminations had slowed, in the view of market analysts at Cox Automotive.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of subsidy

Noun

The new ParaBros is inheriting several lucrative IP assets from the Burbank lot shepherded by De Luca and Abdy — Ocean’s Eleven, Gremlins, Gladys, Minecraft 2 and more going forward, 38 features overall, dated into 2029.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2026
Inequality began accelerating again in the late seventies, and the amount of assets in the hands of the top one per cent increased dramatically.

— Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of assets

Noun

The initiative is being renamed as the Madeleine Fund For Women Artists as part of the endowment process.

— News Desk, Artforum, 8 Oct. 2026
Earlier this year, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the university and the Academy were renegotiating heir relationship; Drexel wanted a full merger, which would grant it the building, endowment and collections.

— Andrew Stelzer, NPR, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of endowment

Noun

Voting rights groups had challenged the effort, noting federal data includes errors that have led to citizens being wrongly removed from electoral rolls.

— Patrick Marley, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026
The restroom was missing a toilet paper dispenser, rolls of toilet paper were observed on a grab rail next to the toilet.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2026

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