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loan office

noun

  1. an office for making loans or receiving payments on loans.
  2. a public office for receiving subscriptions to a government loan.
  3. a pawnbroker's shop.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of loan office1

First recorded in 1710–20
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Example Sentences

A recent Government Accountability Office report found that the department’s student loan office has approximately 700 fewer workers than it needs to manage a program that has greatly increased in size and complexity over the last 10 years.

From Vox

After some haggling the devil proposed that Tom should start a loan office in Boston and use Kidd's money in exacting usury.

But the Fickle Goddess at last forsook him, and under another name he started a bogus loan office in Brussels.

She brought me word they had no such sum to spare; I said they might mortgage their house in the loan-office.

As to your loan office certificates, you would do well to commit them to some correspondent in America.

For anyone who knows how to observe and divine, says M. Alfred Delvau, the public of a loan office is very interesting.

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