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Definition of Loan office
1. Noun. A shop where loans are made with personal property as security.
2. Noun. An office where loans are negotiated and repaid.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loan Office
Literary usage of Loan office
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of American Biography by Jared Sparks (1856)
"His Appointment as Trustee of the Loan-Office — Retirement from Office as State
... In the year 1780, the office of trustee of the loan-office was also ..."
2. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1854)
"TRUSTEES OF GENERAL loan office TO COUNCIL, 1785. The Trustees of the General
loan office of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, applies to his Excellency the ..."
3. The Finances of the United States from 1775 to 1789: With Especial Reference by Charles Jesse Bullock (1895)
"A loan office was opened in each State; and a commissioner, appointed by the ...
on loan office certificates issued in pursuance of former resolutions, ..."
4. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 by United States Continental Congress, Worthington Chauncey Ford, Gaillard Hunt, John Clement Fitzpatrick, Roscoe R. Hill, Kenneth E. Harris, Steven D. Tilley, Library of Congress Manuscript Division (1912)
"... and that the quotas of said bills belonging to each State agreeable to the
said Act shall be lodged in the loan office of each State, and by the Loan ..."
5. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1849)
"The 3 per cent stock is in the form of bonds, with coupons ; the residue nearly
all in loan office certificates, without coupons ..."
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