Definitions

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  • noun banking Lending of small amounts of money per loan as part of a microcredit program.

Etymologies

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micro- +‎ lending

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Examples

  • If you think "microlending" is just about helping a street vendor in India buy a cart or getting a new sewing machine for a seamstress in Tanzania, think again.

    Credit Crunch Gives 'Microlending' a Boost Jonnelle Marte 2010

  • But Web sites that specialize in "microlending" -- small loans mainly to the working poor -- say they're thriving as they address both issues.

    It May Be a Loan, But It's Still a Helping Hand 2009

  • Social lending sites are different from so-called microlending sites like Kiva. org, a nonprofit organization that allow donors to make zero-interest loans to specific causes around the globe.

    When The Bank Won't Lend, Your Neighbor Might 2010

  • Social lending sites are different from so-called microlending sites like Kiva. org, a nonprofit organization that allow donors to make zero-interest loans to specific causes around the globe.

    When The Bank Won't Lend, Your Neighbor Might 2010

  • Social lending sites are different from so-called microlending sites like Kiva. org, a nonprofit organization that allow donors to make zero-interest loans to specific causes around the globe.

    When The Bank Won't Lend, Your Neighbor Might 2010

  • According to nj.com, the movement is also referred to as "microlending" in which the loans will help benefit businesses that have difficulty receiving a loan through banks.

    Forbes.com: News Deborah Sweeney 2011

  • The proposition: If poor people from Bangladesh to Bolivia can be good credit risks, as a global boom in so-called microlending has proved, why not the millions of immigrants working in the United States?

    latimes.com - News 2010

  • The proposition: If poor people from Bangladesh to Bolivia can be good credit risks, as a global boom in so-called microlending has proved, why not the millions of immigrants working in the United States?

    latimes.com - News 2010

  • Cemex opened a kind of microlending plan that offered low-cost building products and donated cheap cement to local block associations affiliated with the Chávez regime.

    Cemex to Fight Venezuela's 2008

  • Support Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries With Kiva: Kiva is an international non-profit organization that facilitates "microlending" for ...

    Consumerism Commentary: A Personal Finance Blog Since 2003 2009

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