microcreditnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈmaɪ.krəʊˌkred.ɪt//ˈmaɪ.kroʊˌkred.ɪt/a very small amount of money lent to a person or group, especially in order to make it possible for people in poor countries to start businesses:
a microcredit program that lends women money to buy chickens
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Small amounts of money
- a drop in the ocean idiom
- bagatelle
- chickenfeed
- drop
- miserly
- not a red cent idiom
- paltry
- peanut
- pennyworth
- pittance
- pocket money
- princely
- red
- sou
- trifling
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Borrowing & lending