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Lender
Businesses that provide loans to others.
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Lender
A person or organization that makes a loan. That is, a lender gives money to a borrower with the expectation of repayment in a timely manner, almost always with interest.
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lender
a person, company or institution that provides a BORROWER with MONEY or some other asset (for example machinery, property) in the form of a LOAN, MORTGAGE or LEASING arrangement in order to finance consumption and investment. See DEBT, FINANCIAL SYSTEM, COLLATERAL SECURITY.Collins Dictionary of Business, 3rd ed. © 2002, 2005 C Pass, B Lowes, A Pendleton, L Chadwick, D O’Reilly and M Afferson
lender
a person, firm or institution that makes a LOAN to a BORROWER to enable the borrower to finance CONSUMPTION or INVESTMENT. Lenders frequently require borrowers to offer some COLLATERAL SECURITY, for example, property deeds, which lenders may retain in the event of borrowers failing to repay the loan. See alsoCREDIT, FINANCIAL SYSTEM.Collins Dictionary of Economics, 4th ed. © C. Pass, B. Lowes, L. Davies 2005
lender
One who advances money to another in the expectation of receiving repayment of the money plus a fee for the use of the money, called interest.
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Lender
See Mortgage Lender.
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