self-finance

verb

To finance without outside help.

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Meanings

verbself-finance (third-person singular simple present self-finances, present participle self-financing, simple past and past participle self-financed)

present singular third person self-finances · participle present self-financing · participle past self-financed · past self-financed

  1. To finance without outside help.

    If one of the most famous stars in the world gets this much grief trying to self-finance and self-distribute a Christ movie without the approval of Jewish pressure groups, what’s a mere studio owned by a conglomerate with 30 other boycottworthy irons in the fire to do?

    2003 August 16, vjmorton, “Not-so-brave heart”, in Rightwing Film Geek

Origin

From self- + finance.

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APA

self-finance. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-finance

MLA

“self-finance.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-finance. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “self-finance,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-finance.

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