loan office
Americannoun
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an office for making loans or receiving payments on loans.
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a public office for receiving subscriptions to a government loan.
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a pawnbroker's shop.
Etymology
Origin of loan office
First recorded in 1710–20
Example Sentences
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The loan office wants to make cutting edge technologies, such as clean hydrogen fuels, as mundane and as easy to finance as wind and solar have become.
From New York Times • May 11, 2023
While Tesla and Solyndra are the best-known examples, the loan office manages over 30 projects worth more than $30 billion and generates $500 million in interest income for the federal government every year, Shah said.
From Fox News • Jan. 26, 2022
The few buildings that rise above a single storey include an evangelical church and a loan office.
From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2019
When Virginia sought to loosen credit with a government-owned loan office, and tried to control costs and limit tobacco production by halting slave imports, Britain said no.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
The Congress Lottery.%—The loan office having failed to bring in as much money as was needed, Congress, toward the close of 1776, was driven to seek some other way, and resorted to a lottery.
From A School History of the United States by McMaster, John Bach
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