Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Finance \Fi*nance"\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Financed}; p. pr.
   & vb. n. {Financing}.]
   To conduct the finances of; to provide for, and manage, the
   capital for; to financier.

         Securing foreign capital to finance multitudinous
         undertakings.                            --B. H.
                                                  Chamberlain.

Source : WordNet®

financing
     n : the act of financing [syn: {funding}]