financing

Pluralfinancings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of finance.

   Several investors are financing the construction of the new bridge.

   The foundation is financing research into rare childhood diseases.

   Note

   One spelling, two verbal jobs. After be it forms the progressive (are financing the bridge). As a gerund it names the activity while keeping a direct object (financing new research is costly). Add an article or a plural and it becomes the noun for a funding deal instead: the financing closed. The verb's old ransom meanings are obsolete, so the form now always concerns money for an undertaking.

2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A transaction that provides a business with the funds it needs to operate or expand.

   The startup secured financing from a venture capital firm.

   Without adequate financing, the planned expansion stalled for months.

   Similarfunding, capital, backing, investment

   Note

   Finance professionals count it. Each round of funding is its own deal, so a company can close several financings, and successive equity financings may come at rising valuations. In general prose it usually stays uncountable: a business needs financing, with no article. Use the plural when you mean separate, identifiable deals, and the mass noun when you mean funding in general.

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