单词 | loan-office |
释义 | loan-officen. 1. An office for lending money to private borrowers. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > loan-shop mountain of piety1617 loan-house1622 Mount of Pietya1630 Monte di Pietà1654 loan-bank1662 loan-office1720 Mount of Pity1792 lending-house1797 Mont de Piété1840 loan-shop1849 1720 London Gaz. No. 5859/9 Subscriptions for erecting..Loan-Offices, Publick Treasuries, &c. pretending to assist the Poor. 1732 in New Jersey Archives (1894) XI. 304 Purchasing New-Jersey Currency and keeping it up till they could make an Advantage of it by imposing upon the Poor, who were in necessity of it to pay into the Loan-Office. 1897 Daily News 8 May 4/7 Indictments charging against four prisoners loan-office and turf frauds. 2. An office for receiving subscriptions to a government loan. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > [noun] > office receiving money for government loan loan-office1777 1777 J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 45 The design of loan-offices was to prevent the farther depreciation of the bills by avoiding farther emissions. 1779 B. Franklin Let. 13 June in Wks. (1888) VI. 428 The interest..is payable only at the loan office in America from whence the bills issued. 1865 H. Phillips Amer. Paper Currency II. 55 Congress..erected a Loan Office in each of the United States. Derivatives ˈloan-ˌofficer n. U.S. an official charged with the duty of receiving subscriptions to a government loan. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > [noun] > office receiving money for government loan > officer of loan-officer1737 1737 Col. Laws N. York (1895) II. 1040 An Act to facilitate and Explain the duty of the Loan officers in this Colony. 1790 J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 571 The loan officers or collectors, or some other known character, will have this additional duty annexed to him. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1720 |
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