| 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 |
| loan collection | a number of pictures loaned by their owners for exhibition |
| society | an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization |
Tammany Hall
Tammany Society
Tammany | a political organization within the Democratic Party in New York City (late 's and early 's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism |
Hare Krishna
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
ISKCON | a religious sect founded in the United States in , based on Vedic scriptures, groups engage in joyful chanting of `Hare Krishna' and other mantras based on the name of the Hindu god Krishna, devotees usually wear saffron robes and practice vegetarianism and celibacy |
Society of Jesus
Jesuit order | a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen, it is strongly committed to education and scholarship |
Religious Society of Friends
Society of Friends
Quakers | a Christian sect founded by George Fox about , commonly called Quakers |
Shakers
United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing | a celibate and communistic Christian sect in the United States |
club
social club
society guild
gild
lodge
order | a formal association of people with similar interests, he joined a golf club, they formed a small lunch society, men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today |
| secret society | a society that conceals its activities from nonmembers |
| Fabian Society | an association of British socialists who advocate gradual reforms within the law leading to democratic socialism |
| academy honorary society | an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature |
Royal Society
Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge | an honorary English society (formalized inand given a royal charter by Charles II in ) through which the British government has supported science |
| open society | a society that allows its members considerable freedom (as in a democracy), America's open society has made it an easy target for terrorists |
| tribal society | a society with the social organization of a tribe |
hunting and gathering tribe
hunting and gathering society | group that supports itself by hunting and fishing and by gathering wild fruits and vegetables, usually nomadic |
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
Freddie Mac
FHLMC | a corporation authorized by Congress to provide a secondary market for residential mortgages |
society high society
beau monde
smart set
bon ton | the fashionable elite |
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 |
| building society | British equivalent of United States savings and loan association |
| 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 |
| Society Islands | an island group of French Polynesia in the South Pacific to the east of Samoa |
usurer
loan shark
moneylender
shylock | someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest |
| 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 |
company
companionship
fellowship
society | the state of being with someone, he missed their company, he enjoyed the society of his friends |
lend
loan | give temporarily, let have for a limited time, I will lend you my car, loan me some money |