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loan office
noun
- an office for making loans or receiving payments on loans.
- a public office for receiving subscriptions to a government loan.
- 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
After some haggling the devil proposed that Tom should start a loan office in Boston and use Kidd's money in exacting usury.
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But the Fickle Goddess at last forsook him, and under another name he started a bogus loan office in Brussels.
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She brought me word they had no such sum to spare; I said they might mortgage their house in the loan-office.
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As to your loan office certificates, you would do well to commit them to some correspondent in America.
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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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