microloan

English

Etymology

micro- +‎ loan

Noun

microloan (plural microloans)

1. (banking) A small loan, especially one extended to a poor person as part of a microcredit program of such lending intended to alleviate poverty.

   He got a one hundred dollar microloan.

Translations

small loan given to a poor person to enable him to become self-employed

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 微貸／微贷 (wēidài)

• Danish: mikrolån n
• Finnish: mikrolaina, mikroluotto
• Portuguese: microempréstimo m
• Russian: микрокреди́т (ru) m (mikrokredít)
• Ukrainian: мікропозика f (mikropozyka), мікрокреди́т (uk) m (mikrokredýt)

See also

• microloan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• microlending

Anagrams

• moronical