Also financeer. [f. prec. sb.; first in vbl. sb. and ppl. adj. financiering, after engineering, etc.] a. intr. To play the part of a financier; to conduct financial operations. Chiefly in contemptuous use; now often (esp. in U.S.), to swindle, cheat. Also quasi-trans. to financier away, out of. b. trans. = FINANCE v. 2. Hence Financiering vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1800. Morn. Chron., in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1801), IV. 163. I am so struck with astonishment at the originality of your financiering genius, that I cannot withhold the humble eulogy due to your transcendent merit.
1822. Examiner, 290/1. The unspeakable financiering of the ‘heaven-born.’
1843. Blackw. Mag., LIV. Aug., 245/2. Hawes, never yet pardoned by the financiering economist of ‘cheese parings and candle ends’ for the splendid Thames tunnel job.
1864. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., IV. XVI. vii. 339. Payable at the Saxon Treasury; to Prussians, in gold; to all other men, in paper only,—which (thanks to Brühl and his unheard-of expenditures and financierings) is now at a discount say of 25, or even 30 per cent. Ibid. (1865), VI. XX. vi. 147. Endless sore business he doubtless has, of recruiting, financiering, watching and providing, which grows more difficult, year by year.
1864. Sala, in Daily Tel., 27 Sept. At least one-fifth of the five millions of dollars accruing from the Sanitary Fairs which have been held all over the country has been ‘financiered’ away to private uses by the managers of the said fairs. Ibid. (1865), Diary in Amer., I. 129. He tried hard, in his capacity of ticket-clerk, to ‘financeer’ us out of an additional forty cents, maintaining that our tickets were only good to St. Lambert.
1834. N. Y. Herald, 27 Oct., 4/3. Railroad construction and financiering.
1892. Julian Ralph, Chicago—The Main Exhibit, in Harper’s Mag., LXXXIV. Feb., 429/2. This region, the richest agricultural territory in the world, does its financiering in Chicago.
1894. Daily News, 3 Oct., 6/5. Intent upon persuading her husband to financeer the Onofalga Company.
