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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of loan office¹

First recorded in 1710–20

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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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