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

2 of 2

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

His clients are weighing distributions, asset sales, financing, and installment plans. — Anniek Bao,lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026 Proctor said the Housing Trust Fund is used as gap financing to supplement projects rather than cover total costs of redevelopment. — Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2026

Verb

Those disclosures will help determine whether the IPO is financing the company’s next stage of growth or monetizing the success of the previous one. — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026 Trump has championed the construction of data centers for artificial intelligence, but the bonds financing those projects appear to have helped push up interest rates. — ABC News, 1 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for financing

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Noun

With funding now threatened, Duncan fears that programs serving underserved schools could be cut, saying that the money is invaluable to Los Angeles.

— Hunter Sowards, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
Medina Diaz ran on increasing public education funding, strengthening the school system, improving aging infrastructure and raising the state minimum wage to $16.

— Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of funding

Noun

Those seriously hurt were transported 43 miles away to the capital of North Shewa Administrative Zone, Debre Birhan.

— Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026
The sticky wicket, which has been the stickiest for AI-tech megacaps, is investor angst around capital expenditures and a sluggish pace of return that could send the stock on a nosedive.

— Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of capital

Verb

How Freedom Fuel is subsidizing the cost of its cheap gas is unclear.

— Frank Landymore, Futurism, 16 July 2026
Meanwhile, despite whatever financial pressures hang over universities, a growing number of them are still subsidizing their athletic departments to cover mounting costs.

— Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 15 July 2026

Definition of subsidizing

Noun

The subsidy headlined a gaudy incentive package offering property and sales tax exemptions, discount electricity and payments for infrastructure in exchange for about 9,000 jobs.

— Mark Dee August 2, Idaho Statesman, 2 Aug. 2026
As Brun was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, Hawaii’s sugarcane plantations were shutting down amid growing international competition and the removal of a federal sugar-industry subsidy.

— Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of subsidy

Noun

That has aligned the region with the United States — and exposed their AI assets to Iranian attacks, noted Helima Croft, head of global strategy at RBC Capital Markets.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
On July 22, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce warned that vaults whose managers pick strategies, rebalance assets and appoint decision-makers may not sit outside securities law.

— Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of assets

Noun

Perhaps the defining competitive advantage of the twenty-first-century university will not be measured by rankings, endowment, enrollment, or research expenditures alone.

— David Rosowsky, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
In June, the city secured a preliminary injunction barring GLAZA from retaining or distributing the endowment after its operating agreement with the zoo expired last year.

— Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026

Definition of endowment

Noun

Takaichi said last Thursday that Japan would cut the tax on food to 1% from 8% for two years from April 2027, and offer cash payments to offset the impact of that 1% on select groups.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2026
The Red Sox also received catcher Jake Rogers and cash considerations in the deal.

— David Brandt, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of cash

Noun

Smythson’s backgammon set swaps the traditional bulky case for a slim roll made from the British brand’s signature cross-grain calf leather.

— Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2026
The designers get one hour to experiment with dyeing the paper towels, which are presented to them in yard-wide uncut rolls.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2026

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