| loan approval | formal authorization to get a loan (usually from a bank) |
| loan office | an office where loans are negotiated and repaid |
pawnbroker's shop
pawnshop
loan office | a shop where loans are made with personal property as security |
loanblend
loan-blend
hybrid | a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root) |
loanword
loan | a word borrowed from another language, e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English |
calque
calque formation
loan translation | an expression introduced into one language by translating it from another language, `superman' is a calque for the German `Ubermensch' |
| loan application | an application to borrow money |
decimal point
percentage point
point | the dot at the left of a decimal fraction |
percent sign
percentage sign | a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by |
| loan collection | a number of pictures loaned by their owners for exhibition |
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
Freddie Mac
FHLMC | a corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages |
consumer finance company
small loan company | a finance company that makes loans to people who have trouble getting a bank loan |
industrial bank
industrial loan company | a finance company that makes small loans to industrial workers |
savings and loan
savings and loan association | a thrift institution that is required by law to make a certain percentage of its loans as home mortgages |
| Home Loan Bank | one of regional banks that monitor and make short-term credit advances to thrift institutions in their region |
| Federal Home Loan Bank System | the central credit system for thrift institutions |
usurer
loan shark
moneylender
shylock | someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest |
share
portion
part
percentage | assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group, he wanted his share in cash |
| bank loan | a loan made by a bank, to be repaid with interest on or before a fixed date |
business loan
commercial loan | a bank loan granted for the use of a business |
| interbank loan | a loan from one bank to another |
home loan
home equity credit
home equity loan
equity credit line | a loan secured by equity value in the borrower's home |
installment credit
installment loan | a loan repaid with interest in equal periodic payments |
| loan | the temporary provision of money (usually at interest) |
call loan
demand loan | a loan that is repayable on demand |
| direct loan | a loan by a lender to a customer without the use of a third party, direct lending gives the lender greater discretion in making loans |
participation loan
loan participation
participation financing | a loan that is shared by a group of banks that join to make a loan too big for any one of them alone |
personal loan
consumer loan | a loan that establishes consumer credit that is granted for personal use, usually unsecured and based on the borrower's integrity and ability to pay |
automobile loan
auto loan
car loan | a personal loan to purchase an automobile |
real estate loan
mortgage loan | a loan on real estate that is usually secured by a mortgage |
| time loan | a loan that is payable on or before a specified date |
| proportion ratio | the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree, an inordinate proportion of the book is given over to quotations, a dry martini has a large proportion of gin |
case-to-infection proportion
case-to-infection ratio | the number of cases of a disease divided by the number of infections with the agent that causes the disease |
percentage
percent
per centum
pct | a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred) |
| ratio | the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient) |
| aspect ratio | the ratio of the width to the height of a tv picture |
focal ratio
f number
stop number
speed | the ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a (camera) lens system |
| loss ratio | the ratio of the annual claims paid by an insurance company to the premiums received |
| output-to-input ratio | the output power of a transducer divided by the input power |
price-to-earnings ratio
P
E ratio | (stock market) the price of a stock divided by its earnings |
signal-to-noise ratio
signal-to-noise
signal
noise ratio
signal
noise
S
N | the ratio of signal intensity to noise intensity |
lend
loan | give temporarily, let have for a limited time, I will lend you my car, loan me some money |