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financing

noun · verb · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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Canada, General-American: /ˈfaɪnænsɪŋ/
CMU ARPABET: F AH0 N AE1 N S IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
CMU ARPABET 2: F IH0 N AE1 N S IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
CMU ARPABET 3: F AY0 N AE1 N S IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

noun

Meaning 1

A transaction that provides funds for a business.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: business, finance

Examples

The successive equity financings were at higher and higher valuations.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

verb

Meaning 2

present participle and gerund of finance

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

noun

Meaning 3

the act of financing

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: funding

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: finance

History

Etymology

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Word forms

Inflections and variants

financings — plural

Word family

Derived and related words

Derived: mezzanine financing, microfinancing

Related: finance

Semantic map

Other relationships

Hypernyms: finance

Sources

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