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self-financing

self-financing noun: financing by oneself, or of a scheme, by itself. Also the present participle and gerund of self-finance.

Noun

self-financing (usually uncountable, plural self-financings)

  1. (usually) Financing by oneself, or of a scheme, by itself.
    • That represented an additional four million journeys - not sufficient to be self-financing. […] If the permanent scheme does not become self-financing through a larger increase in passenger numbers, the costs will be met from the ScotRail budget.2025 November 12, Paul Clifton interviews David Ross, “The RAIL Interview”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 30
    Synonyms:
    self-funding

Also used as

self-financing is also the present participle and gerund of self-finance.

Synonyms of self-financing

Forms of self-financing

pluralself-financings

Questions about self-financing

What does self-financing mean?
Self-financing means financing by oneself, or of a scheme, by itself.
What part of speech is self-financing?
Self-financing is a noun.
What is the plural of self-financing?
The plural of self-financing is self-financings.

Words near self-financing in the dictionary

  1. self-fertilization
  2. self-fertilizations
  3. self-finance
  4. self-financed
  5. self-finances
  6. self-financing
  7. self-finished
  8. self-finishing
  9. self-fitting
  10. self-flagellation
  11. self-flagellations

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