financed
- 1Simple past and past participle of finance.
The city financed the bridge repairs through a bond issue.
Their startup was financed largely by venture capital.
Note
One spelling does double duty. It serves as the plain past tense, and as the participle after have in the perfect or be in the passive. Only the transitive use, providing funding for something, makes a passive possible: a project is financed by investors. The intransitive sense, managing finances, takes no object and has no passive. An older meaning, extorting ransom from someone, is now obsolete.
financed is a form of finance
finance, verb: To provide or obtain the money needed for a purchase, project, or undertaking, or to raise and manage funds for it. Full entry
- Spelling
- finance → financed: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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