The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loan \Loan\, n. [OE. lone, lane, AS. l[=a]n, l[ae]n, fr. le['o]n to lend; akin to D. leen loan, fief, G. lehen fief, Icel. l[=a]n, G. leihen to lend, OHG. l[=i]han, Icel. lj[=i], Goth. leihwan, L. linquere to leave, Gr. lei`pein, Skr. ric. [root]119. Cf. Delinquent, Eclipse, Eleven, Ellipse, Lend, License, Relic.]
The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services.
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That which one lends or borrows, especially a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan. Loan office.
An office at which loans are negotiated, or at which the accounts of loans are kept, and the interest paid to the lender.
A pawnbroker's shop.
WordNet
n. a shop where loans are made with personal property as security [syn: pawnbroker's shop, pawnshop]
an office where loans are negotiated and repaid
Usage examples of "loan office".
Now, in the Interlibrary Loan office, Randy had not just one but several staple removers in his desk drawer and was actually obligated to use them for an hour or two a day.
The primary idea was to make the savings and loan office a warm and friendly place to do business.
The primary idea was to make the savingsand loan office a warm and friendly place to do business.
Holding him by the hand she led him to the corner waited for the light to change, and then, together, they made their way down the sidewalk, past the resting people, to the savings and loan office.
Another man sat at the corner of the desk in a blue leather chair, a cold-eyed hatchet-faced man, as lean as a rake and as hard as the manager of a loan office.