microcredit
[ mahy-kroh-kred-it ]
/ ˈmaɪ kroʊˌkrɛd ɪt /
noun
the lending of very small amounts of money at low interest, especially to a start-up company or self-employed person.
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Also called
mi·cro·lend·ing [mahy-kroh-len-ding] /ˈmaɪ kroʊˌlɛn dɪŋ/ .
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How to use microcredit in a sentence
But give the Kingdom credit for its sense of mercy: The lashes will be administered only 50 at a time.
To his credit, Huckabee is conscious of the fact that he will need a cluster of deep-pocketed patrons and bundlers.
To be sure, Jefferson did share the credit, but not in the way such a resolution might be interpreted.
That could include private financial or personal information—like the credit-card numbers you used to pay for the corrupted Wi-Fi.
And much of the credit to her transformation is owed to a finishing school that caters to women just like her.
After all, here was a babe equipped to face the exigencies of a censorious world; in looks and apparel a credit to any father.
The result of the restoration of trade, banking, and credit to earlier and more normal conditions has been steadily apparent.
He went to a bank in the little town where he had other friends from whom he had never asked credit.
I must make no mistake, and blunder into a national type of features, all wrong; if I make your mask, it must do us credit.
The so-called war credit banks are designed to serve this purpose.
British Dictionary definitions for microcredit
noun
the practice of lending small amounts of money on minimal security, esp to help small businesses and communities in the developing world
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