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 agency’s emergency loan office is accustomed to responding to geographically contained disasters such as hurricanes or other natural disasters.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2020
But despite its work, Mulvaney downgraded the mission of Frotman’s student loan office earlier this summer and moved it the umbrella of consumer education instead of enforcement.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 27, 2018
Accepted a number of loan office bills this day, and every day of the past week.
From Benjamin Franklin by John T. (John Torrey) Morse
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